A 19-year-old teenager with Down syndrome was found unaccompanied on a grass verge near the M50 motorway after he was left behind following a swimming pool trip with voluntary organisation Stewarts Care. Staff had taken a group on a trip to a swimming pool run by the organisation in Palmerstown, southwest Dublin. The absence of the young man was only discovered when the group returned to a Stewarts’ day centre after the outing. The teenager was later found walking along a grass verge on the N4, close to the M50 motorway. The incident occurred in early April, and an independent inquiry was “initiated immediately” when senior management became aware of the incident, the organisation said.

Source: The Irish Times April 16, 2019 22:52 UTC