Cleo Smith, 4, disappeared at the camping ground with his family on October 16. After 18 days of suffering, the Australian police found her alive this Wednesday and locked her in a house in Carnarvon, about 3 kilometers away from where she lives and about 75 kilometers away from where she disappeared. kilometer.
At around 1 am local time, four police officers broke into the house and found Minor alone in one of the rooms.
“I think it’s definitely her. I said,’What’s your name?’ She didn’t answer. I asked her three times, and then she looked at me and said, ‘My name is Cleo'”, Cameron Bryan, the police officer who found the minor, told the media.
According to the authorities, the rescue was based on the analysis of thousands of pieces of information, not based on specific calls or clues, when the police did not have time to notify the girl’s relatives.
After bringing the little girl back to safety, an agent called Cleo’s mother Allie Smith and said, “Someone wants to talk to you.”
Criminologist Xanthe Mallett described the minor’s rescue as a “miracle” because, as she explained to the local TV station Channel 9, “It is very unusual to find a kidnapped girl alive After so much time”.
Detainee
Soon after finding the little girl, the police arrested A 36-year-old man who has no relationship with his family Via Cleo.
Authorities continue to question the residents of Caernarfon, although they are more willing to be cautious about the case, comparing the Oceania with the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann in 2007 with her parents in Portugal.
Western Australia Police Commissioner Chris Dawson avoided providing “more details about this person” at the Carnarvon press conference, only stating that he was a resident of the town.
Authorities that have not yet filed charges against the suspects said they expect to file charges in the next few hours. Formal charges against detainees.
The police posted a photo of Cleo on social networks. She was already with her family. In the photo, she appeared to be smiling on the hospital bed, holding ice cream in one hand and waving to the camera.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison responded to the above photo on Twitter and left a message: “A very happy moment.”
go home
“Our family is complete again,” said the child’s mother, Allie, in an emotional message posted on Instagram.
When she disappeared, Cleo was in a tent at Blowholes Camp, about 875 kilometers north of Perth, next to her Mother and stepfather, Jack Glidden.
The girl got up at one o’clock in the morning on Saturday, October 16 to ask for water, but five hours later, when the mother and her partner got up, they found Cleo and her sleeping bag were missing.