EXCLUSIVE: William Tyrrell medical report reveals missing child had chronic health problems
One of the last medical reports of missing toddler William Tyrrell shows that he had chronic physical and emotional problems, including speech and hearing problems, and that he was often an unhappy, lonely child.
Four months before he disappeared, then two-and-a-half-year-old William had a ‘chronic cough’, ‘mild hearing loss’ and ‘difficulty with speech production’, Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal.
He also had an allergic rash called ‘geographic tongue’ and problems pronouncing the letters ‘s’ and ‘t’.
William was also assessed as having ‘some deficits in gross motor skills and emotional well-being’.
The teachers at the daycare he attended three days a week noted that he “often engaged in solitary play” but that he was “initiating cooperation.”
It is this childcare center on Sydney’s lower north shore where William had his last play session that afternoon before being picked up by his foster parents, known only as SD and JS, the day before he disappeared without a trace.
William Tyrrell’s medical report (above), about four months before his disappearance, says he had “deficits in… emotional well-being” and often played alone in daycare
William had hearing loss, speech problems, motor function deficits and a chronic cough when he was two and a half years old in the last few months before he disappeared in Kendall
The center is a short drive from the Chipmunks Play Center in Macquarie Park, where William’s birth parents last saw him during a contact visit on August 21, 2014.
During that visit, Salvation Army Young Hope supervisor Ben Attwood had alerted the birth mother that William had a black eye.
His mother also worried that her son was “a little too skinny.”
The birth mother said in a police statement after William disappeared that she was told William had fallen while climbing on his foster mother.
“(The caseworker) said William climbed on the female foster carer and he lost his balance and fell and he got a black eye as a result,” the mother’s statement said.
“Apparently it happened on a Saturday, but I don’t know how long before this visit.”
Teachers at the children’s center where William Tyrrell was last seen the afternoon before he disappeared ‘noticed that he often played alone’
William Tyrrell had a black eye during his last contact visit with his biological parents and his biological mother thought the toddler was too ‘skinny’
There is no suggestion that the black eye was the result of anything other than a typical toddler accident.
It was later revealed that William was forbidden from eating chocolates or sweets and that the foster parents did not often serve takeaway meals and that their stop at McDonald’s on his fateful final trip was ‘a treat meal’.
Some of the last images of William, apart from him wearing a Spider Man suit on his foster mother’s veranda just before his disappearance, can be seen at McDonald’s near Heatherbrae, NSW, at around 6.25pm on Thursday, September 11, 2014.
The Macca stopped for just under 16 hours before being reported missing to police from Kendall on the NSW Mid North Coast. Searches for William since then have turned up nothing.
Daily Mail Australia previously revealed that about a week before he disappeared on September 12, 2014, William fell over and ‘couldn’t get up’.
William’s foster mother (above with the foster father) blames his disruptive behavior on contact visits with his biological parents
William’s foster father told a Port Macquarie detective two days later how the child had recently fallen over at the foster parents’ home in North Shore and had been lying in a worrying way “awkwardly” for a boy of that size and age.
“It wasn’t until this past week that he was… you know, when you have the little stools they sit on,” JS told police.
‘So he sat next to it or on one in the kitchen with us. And somehow he had managed to sit awkwardly and fall backwards.
‘But he couldn’t get up anymore, something that bothers me a bit.
‘He fell backwards. That seemed to me to indicate that he was having trouble getting up.’
The foster father believed that if the boy had been alone, he could eventually “get out of it by just rolling.”
William Tyrrell’s foster mother (above) told court earlier this month that the boy would bite her when he first came to live with them
William (upstairs in a shop) had an allergic rash called ‘geographic tongue’, and problems pronouncing the letters ‘s’ and ‘t’ due to his hearing problems, as well as a chronic cough
‘But they don’t think about things like that. They think: Oh, I’m in a position that I can’t get out of – and daddy, daddy is here and daddy, daddy.
“So you know you helped them and he’s okay.”
In one of her police statements, William’s foster mother admitted that when they took William in, he had been violent and bit her.
“(William) had personal problems…especially with me,” she said. ‘
“We were dealing with things like William hitting me, biting me and him basically being furious (that there was another child with the foster parents).”
The foster mother, who said the other child would “hide under the table and not come out and throw tantrums,” blamed William’s violent and “very erratic” behavior on his biological parents, who continued to have visitors.
‘The first period when William first came to live with (us) was very difficult. William had… disrupted attachment issues with his biological parents.”