Cleo Smith
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Found alive and well.
Amazing story for those not in Aus.
18 days. Dude arrested.
Got goosebumps and it's a little dusty.
Apologies for any previous dark thoughts about her parents.
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@booboo said in Cleo Smith:
Apologies for any previous dark thoughts about her parents.
Same here. My initial thoughts were the parents until the police mentioned other campers stated they heard a vehicle leave in the early hours.
Must have been terrifying for the poor kid.
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@antipodean said in Cleo Smith:
@booboo said in Cleo Smith:
Apologies for any previous dark thoughts about her parents.
Same here. My initial thoughts were the parents until the police mentioned other campers stated they heard a vehicle leave in the early hours.
Must have been terrifying for the poor kid.
I can't even imagine what that would be like for the kid and the parents (which would naturally be thinking the worst)
Super duper effort by the police!!!
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I am truly amazed after this long, found "alive". After hearing so many negative stories and setting our own expectations based on that over the years, this is quite an incredible turnaround.
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@bayimports said in Cleo Smith:
I am truly amazed after this long, found "alive". After hearing so many negative stories and setting our own expectations based on that over the years, this is quite an incredible turnaround.
The research and evidence on child abductions is very harrowing when it comes to death and the time after abduction at which death has occurred.
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After all the shit of 2020 and 2021 this is amazing news. Sooooo unlikely that she would be found alive. Awesome work from the police!
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Awesome she has been found alive. Still a LOT of answered questions relating to this guy given how close he lives, be interesting to see what comes out .
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@no-quarter said in Cleo Smith:
Awesome she has been found alive. Still a LOT of answered questions relating to this guy given how close he lives, be interesting to see what comes out .
Reminds me of that other story in Australia where the cops wondered if a kid had been abducted as part of a gang dispute. Then the kid turned up a while later unharmed
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There was a quote in one of the stories earlier today to the effect of 'hardened Detectives on the case were in tears at the news that Cleo had been found', that I thought summed up the outcome well. The best outcome, and one that seemed the least likely this time yesterday.
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This is a little weird. As yet no suggestion of assault (may yet come out but Cleo seemed happy enough in the footage I've seen). Dude had lots of Bratz toys which she was apparently playing with when they found her.
Reminds me of this that happened up the road from here:
Man jailed for abducting 3yo girl through window while she was sleeping
A man who climbed through a window to abduct a three-year-old girl from her Childers home while she was sleeping, then keeping her at his house for two days, is sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail.
