Reports from witnesses do not indicate the child was put there. They do say he told his mom he wanted to be with the gorilla. I don’t think that is a strange thing for a four year old to say. I also don’t think the mom was negligent for not taking him seriously. She probably thought there was no way for him to get down to the gorilla pit. From one witness account the mom noticed her son was missing very quickly and started to call and look for him.
That's good to hear.
This is the second person inside a zoo enclosure in the past month or so. Mentally ill people have crawled into enclosure for the last few decades. So when it happened again, I am not as shocked that it happened, but wondering how it can still be happening decades after the first mentally ill person crawled over a fence in order to talk to animals. I would think zoos would make these enclosures more secure, and therefore it would have to be deliberate, not an accident, for someone to get inside.
On the other hand, the Jurassic Park movies seem a lot more believable now.