Search continues for 4 year old Cleo Smith

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Cleo Smith, 4, was last seen in her family's tent at a campsite north of Carnarvon on Saturday. (Supplied: WA Police)

An air, land and sea search was launched over the weekend, with state emergency service (SES) crews from Carnarvon, Shark Bay, Kalbarri and Geraldton joining police. In total, 22 SES volunteers joined the search along with community volunteers, with helicopters, drones and an Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) jet providing aerial support.

Marine search and rescue volunteers and fisheries officers have also been searching nearby waters. Detectives from Perth, Carnarvon and Geraldton have been examining the area, along with forensics officers from Perth….

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10...ear-old-girl-continues-wa-carnarvon/100545576

 

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Police are now focusing their efforts on investigating the “worst case scenario” - that little Cleo was abducted from the tent while her family lay sleeping, with a complex criminal investigation underway.

They have also admitted that she may have been taken interstate by now.
 
Cleo’s mother Ellie Smith said she had woken up around 6am on Sunday to find their tent zipper was nearly completely open and her four-year-old nowhere to be seen. She said Cleo had been sleeping in a separate area of the tent, with her baby sister just metres away.

It's easy to jump to conclusions in this case, the likely scenario being every parents worst nightmare - paedophiles.
 
Police have just revealed why four-year-old Cleo Smith, missing from a tent in remote WA, could not have opened the zipper herself. It all but rules out the theory that the little girl left the tent alone on Saturday morning hours before she was discovered missing. Cleo hasn’t been seen since about 1.30am Saturday morning.
 
Missing four-year-old girl Cleo Smith has been found safe and well in a locked house in Carnarvon. Police broke into the house about 1am this morning and found her in one of the rooms. One of the officers picked her up and asked her, 'What's your name?" “My name is Cleo” she said." She has been reunited with her parents.
 
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Police did a great job.

As part of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of the preschooler, officers collected more than 50 cubic metres of rubbish from roadside bins as far north as Minilya, which is about 1,020 kilometres north of Perth, and as far south as Geraldton. The rubbish was packed into two trucks and transported to Perth, where four forensics officers and 20 recruits spent two days sorting through hundreds of bags in an effort to find any items that may assist in the investigation. However, nothing of significance was found.
 
Remember the hell the police but the parents through when a dingo carried their infant off 40 years ago?
(I only remember it due to TV movie.)\

Post 14, lends a sinister competent to this event, 'locked door?
 
The town of Carnarvon has only about 5,000 residents and they were all looking to help put in the search but apparently it was round the clock detective work that produced the results. The police got all the help they asked for from the state government and the army helped out too.
 
I only heard about this, this morning, when the BBC News
reported that she had been found, that is a great result.

The man who took her must be unstable, if he thought that
he could get away with keeping a kidnapped child in a small
town where she comes from!

She wasn't harmed, other than being taken from her family,
which is good.

Mike.
 

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