[Steve_Seattle]

"Sounds like Someone wasn’t watching a child."

So you were there and know what happened? Anyone with a kindergarten understanding of human nature knows that even a loving, attentive parent can be distracted for a few moments, and that it only takes a few moments for a child to get into trouble. In this case, maybe the parent was standing watching the gorilla, entertained, assuming that the child was doing likewise, and not knowing that there was some way for the child to get into the gorilla enclosure.

[xzins]

Since then I’ve read and heard reports and from the woman herself, and she was monitoring the kids. He was not under observation and while with other kids she noticed this one out of her peripheral vision doing what he did. I know that area and 2 as there just a month ago. It’s large, so she didn’t have the child near her.