Just a thought, it certainly is not their fault but when I looked at the layout of this apartment complex, and the river on the side of the playground, I thought why not fence it? Especially with liability these days? Don't get me wrong, it is nicer to have an open space for sure if you have to live in a complex but a resident can be given a key to a secure gate, etc. A child this age should still be watched especially with autism and non-verbal, don't get me wrong, but we don't know the facts there yet. A few years ago, my complex fenced and gated the pool. Not for safety but because neighboring kids were using it from other complexes without pools. They added a locked gate. Now don't get me wrong, I don't like it because now one can't go from the pool area to the picnic tables or watch your kids from the shade, if something was wrong you would have to run inside with a key and go to the pool to save a child even though right in your sight and close. Residents don't have keys to the gate, only management does. Probably because they figure residents could still let other kids in or kids let their friends in? I don't know. I don't like what they did here BUT in this case, in the pics of this complex, that would be easy to do without hurting a thing or obstructing any view the way it looks and give residents a key. A stranger could not come in easily and most kids, especially a 3 year old, could not climb the fence and get out easily. Again, it in no way dissolves a parents' responsibility or a caretaker's but it would be a simple thing to do. On the other hand, depending on what happened here, it may have made no difference at all. Just thoughts.