Boy drowned after going missing from aunt’s house

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy with learning difficulties drowned in the sea after wandering off from his aunt’s house, an inquest heard yesterday.

Karl Moore, from Inbhir Ide in Malahide, was pulled from the sea at Blackrock Beach in Dublin’s Balbriggan only half a mile from the house he went missing from.

His distraught aunt, Catherine Moore, told the Dublin City Coroner of the panicked search for Karl until his body was discovered less than an hour after he disappeared.