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Found Miracle as 'Australia's Madeleine McCann' is Found ALIVE Inside a Locked House in a Remote Town 18 Days After 4yr Vanished from Holiday Camp

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Today police smashed their way into a locked suburban house in Carnarvon, which lies around 46 miles away from where Cleo went missing, and found the little girl in one of the rooms at around 1am local time.

Western Australia Police Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch confirmed that Cleo was 'alive and well' and had been reunited with her relieved parents.

He said: 'One of the officers picked her up into his arms and asked her ''what's your name?''

'She said: ''My name is Cleo''.'

Following the rescue operation, Cleo's mother, Ellie Smith, broke her silence by sharing a series of love heart emojis on Instagram and said: 'Our family is whole again.'

A 36-year-old man from Carnarvon was arrested at the property, which is just a seven minutes drive away from the girl's family home, and has been taken into custody for questioning.

Police Commissioner Chris Dawson told ABC Radio the man has no connection to Cleo or her family.
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Full Article:
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PICTURED: 'Australia's Maddie' Cleo Smith, 4, is found ALIVE

Kidnapped four-year-old Cleo Smith beams from her hospital bed today having been found 'safe and well' 18 days after being snatched as she slept on a campsite with her family.
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Spoke to my friend. He said physically, she seems fine. No bruises or breaks. She's home with her parents. They don't have details yet because she's only 4, and not really articulating the experience. She just wants ice cream and Mummy. It was 18 days, which is forever to a little, and really one big blur. But she is home, and safe, and loved.
 
While this was a horrible experience for the girl, it is almost miraculous that she was found alive and seemingly unharmed physically. The chances of a little girl being kidnapped by a stranger and held for eighteen days without rape and/or death are miniscule. The man who took her may be unbalanced, but seemingly not in the usual way.
 
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The man suspected of abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith has been described as “quiet” and “lonely”, but neighbours have expressed shock following his arrest.

The 36-year-old lives several minutes away from Cleo’s family home and the local police station in Carnarvon, in Western Australia’s north, where most people know each other.

Neighbours said the man had been “acting weird” and “strange” lately, and had been seen purchasing nappies despite not having a child.
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One neighbour said the man’s dog was usually at the back of the house but had more recently been at the front.

Some people were woken by the sound of police barging into the man’s home in the middle of the night to rescue the little girl — 18 days after she was taken from the family tent at Quobba Blowholes campground.

Henry Dodd said he saw the moment Cleo came out of the house being held tight on a detective’s shoulder.

“She looked at me and she was a bit scared,” he told 9 News.

The suspect remains in custody but no charges have been laid. Police said the man only became a suspect on Tuesday.
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Mr Dawson said a 36-year-old man was in custody and was “assisting police” with their inquiries.

“I’m not going to elaborate further in terms of that man, other than to saying he is a local man from Carnarvon, and we will be having something further to say later,” the commissioner told reporters.
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WA Premier reveals awkward moment with Cleo Smith

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan had an awkward moment with Cleo Smith when he broke one of her new Barbie shoes during an otherwise sweet meeting with the “delightful” four-year-old girl.
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Let us all hope this is some rare unicorn type event where there was a person that just wanted to somehow care for/be with a young child and didn't do the "norm" type of child kidnapping where they were abused, etc. I'll remain optimistic until it's proven otherwise. Maybe he found the little girl wondering around and it wasn't an abduction. Who really knows. Fingers crossed she wasn't abused in any way.
 
No, it was an abduction. The family was on a camping trip. They'd spent the day hiking, playing, etc. The family wore themselves out and went to sleep in their tents HARD. The kids were in one tent, the parents in a tent right beside them. The parents checked the kids and turned in at 1:30am. Mom woke up at 6am and checked the kids, and Cleo was gone. The tent was zipped closed. This guy had to have been watching them and waiting. He even closed the tent after he took her.
 
elmgems said:
No, it was an abduction. The family was on a camping trip. They'd spent the day hiking, playing, etc. The family wore themselves out and went to sleep in their tents HARD. The kids were in one tent, the parents in a tent right beside them. The parents checked the kids and turned in at 1:30am. Mom woke up at 6am and checked the kids, and Cleo was gone. The tent was zipped closed. This guy had to have been watching them and waiting. He even closed the tent after he took her.
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Leaving that small children alone in one tent, sleeping in another myself? Not an option. That small children could potentially wake up and wander off alone never to be found again, or kidnapped like Cleo and Madeleine.
I don't understand people..
 
Looks like the “quiet” and “lonely” weirdo might have tried to off himself.
A 36-year-old man arrested Wednesday in connection with the apparent abduction of 4-year-old Cleo Smith was taken to hospital after self-harming while in police custody, Western Australia Police said Thursday.
Speaking to Perth radio station 6PR, Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde described the suspect's injuries as "not life threatening."
The man has now been returned to a police station in Carnarvon and is cooperating with inquiries, Wilde told a later news conference. ..... https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/australia/cleo-smith-kidnapping-suspect-hospital-intl-hnk/index.html
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A 36-year-old man has been charged with the abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith.
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He has gone to hospital twice to receive treatment for injuries since his arrest, police said. One unconfirmed report said a fellow prisoner “beat him black and blue,” while another said the suspect had tried to self-harm.
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Cleo Smith: Police investigate whether girl was in one place whole time

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@Craygor looks like inmates are trying to help him out ..

Aboriginal man wrongly identified as Cleo Smith's suspected kidnapper is threatened with SPEARING - as elders hold crisis talks with police over racist backlash fears​

Terrance Flowers calls himself Terry Kelly on social media - the same name shared by Cleo's suspected abductor. However, the wrong man was widely pictured and shamed on social media following the girl's rescue on Wednesday.
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Apparently he bought dolls for her ..
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Cleo Smith's 'kidnapper' charged after missing girl rescued from locked house

It is alleged Terry Kelly snatched four-year-old Cleo from her family's tent during a camping trip.
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elmgems said:
No, it was an abduction. The family was on a camping trip. They'd spent the day hiking, playing, etc. The family wore themselves out and went to sleep in their tents HARD. The kids were in one tent, the parents in a tent right beside them. The parents checked the kids and turned in at 1:30am. Mom woke up at 6am and checked the kids, and Cleo was gone. The tent was zipped closed. This guy had to have been watching them and waiting. He even closed the tent after he took her.
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I had heard that it was a separate part of the same tent. Not sure of it's veracity though.
 
Anubis said:
I had heard that it was a separate part of the same tent. Not sure of it's veracity though.
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You're right. I misunderstood the layout. I guess this thing has a "barrier" like a curtain. Shaun (my friend) is still pretty wound up. Sometimes we have funny language issues, like "pants" meaning "underwear." He said Cleo told them she had toys. She was asking for a doll that apparently was left behind when she was rescued. It took them a while to figure out that she meant a doll there, not one of her own.
 
elmgems said:
You're right. I misunderstood the layout. I guess this thing has a "barrier" like a curtain. Shaun (my friend) is still pretty wound up. Sometimes we have funny language issues, like "pants" meaning "underwear." He said Cleo told them she had toys. She was asking for a doll that apparently was left behind when she was rescued. It took them a while to figure out that she meant a doll there, not one of her own.
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I have a tent with two "bedrooms" and a "livingroom". A "house tent" if that is a thing. If I ever use it again, the zippers will be padlocked together and I will bring a potty for the kids.
My initial thought was that I hope she gets that doll, but then again... It might be creepy to have it as a reminiscence of something so scary. As a parent I would probably not want in my house.
 
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I have a tent with two "bedrooms" and a "livingroom". A "house tent" if that is a thing. If I ever use it again, the zippers will be padlocked together and I will bring a potty for the kids.
My initial thought was that I hope she gets that doll, but then again... It might be creepy to have it as a reminiscence of something so scary. As a parent I would probably not want in my house.
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I kinda felt the same way, but also, maybe that doll was what made her feel safe
 
From Shaun:
The guy had a bunch of fake social media accounts and one of his instagram accounts was following the parents. You could see all the comments people have left and the info they've found on him. It seems as though he had like, this fixation with dolls, and people are wondering if he stole her to pretend like she was a doll and dress her up, or if he was pretending she was his daughter. Online, people were on FB and Insta abusing him but it lead to people finding out he'd used their pictures and their kids pictures to make his fake family, claiming they were his kids. He spent a lot of time making a whole fake life on socials and even went as far as following missing kids pages, posting about how important it is to be cyber safe.
 
An Australian man has pleaded guilty to abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith and holding her at his home for 18 days.

Cleo vanished from her family's tent last October while on a camping trip in Western Australia, sparking a huge search that gripped the country.

Police later found her at a stranger's house in her hometown of Carnarvon, a short drive from the campsite.

Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, admitted a charge of child stealing to a magistrate on Monday.

He was remanded in custody to face the Perth District Court in March, and is expected to be sentenced at a later date.

Australian media reported that Mr Kelly's guilty plea had come as a surprise ahead of what many expected to be a lengthy legal process.

He has been held in a Perth jail since 5 November - two days after police smashed their way into his locked house, found Cleo inside, and arrested him on a nearby street.

More details about the abduction are expected to be made public in the sentencing hearing, news outlet Perth Now reported.

Mr Kelly is yet to enter a plea on a separate charge of assaulting a public officer.
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Cleo Smith: Man pleads guilty to kidnapping Australian girl

The four-year-old girl was taken from a campsite and held in a locked house for 18 days.
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A man has been jailed for 13 years and six months for abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote Western Australia (WA) campsite.
Terence Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty last year to taking Cleo Smith from her family's tent in October 2021.
After a huge police search, Cleo was found alive 18 days later at Kelly's house, minutes from her own home.
Kelly was arrested and later admitted child stealing in a case which attracted global attention.

Handing down the sentence at Perth District Court, Chief Judge Julie Wager said the crime displayed "the highest level of seriousness".
Kelly will serve more than 11 years before being eligible for parole.

The court heard how Kelly kept Cleo at his house for the entire 18 days, in a bedroom with a door modified to be lockable from the outside.
He turned up the radio to drown out the noise of Cleo pleading for her mother, the court was told.
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Cleo Smith: Terence Kelly jailed for 13 years for abducting four-year-old girl

Terence Kelly is sentenced to 13 years behind bars for kidnapping four-year-old Cleo Smith in 2021.
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