Cleo Smith was found in the home of Terence Darrell Kelly, who admitted to her abduction during a video court appearance in Carnarvon, Australia, on Monday. A man plead guilty to abducting a 4-year-old girl who went missing from her family's campsite in Australia in October.
“We are all so pleased to see little Shayla reunited with her family and friends following this positive outcome.”
Shayla's family speaks after desperate 48-hour search ended in a miracle. The four-year-old was found alive in Tasmanian bushland on Friday after two nights alone.
Cleo Smith, a four-year-old Australian girl, disappeared on 16 October 2021 from a campsite in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia (WA). Police allege that she was abducted by a 36-year-old man from Carnarvon. She was found alive and well on 3 November, after the man's home was raided by police.
Little Cleo Smith was one such case that captured the public's attention she went missing for 18 days in Australia last year. She was eventually found in the home of 36-year-old Terrence Kelly who has today pleaded guilty to her abduction.
During the 18 days Cleo sMITH spent being held in a home in Carnarvon in Western Australia, her hair had been completely changed by her abductor. “We'd seen her hair was cut, her hair was dyed,” Ellie said during her 60 Minutes exclusive on Sunday.
Kelly will be sentenced for kidnapping Cleo over two days in December after pleading guilty. The court heard Bropho took the nine-year-old girl to his state-owned home, 300m from the park. He then sexually assaulted her before she managed to run away and tell her family what had happened.
The house is just 3 kilometres from little Cleo's home, and 74 kilometres from the campsite at the Blowholes, where she was allegedly snatched from her family's tent in the early hours of the morning on Saturday October 16.
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Police smashed their way into a home in Carnarvon in the early hours of Wednesday, following forensic clues. "They found little Cleo in one of the rooms," Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch from WA Police said in a statement.
Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, admitted to the abduction during a brief court appearance in Carnarvon in a video link from a Perth prison, 900 kilometers (560 miles) to the south. He faces a potential sentence of up to 20 years in prison on a conviction of forcibly taking a child aged under 16.
The first thing Inspector Hallett did when Shayla was found was tell her mum, who was "very grateful". "The first thing we did was she was reacquainted with her mother," he said. "It was very emotional, when I passed the happy news on to mum, she was very grateful and very keen.
The mother of Cleo Smith says she woke to find the tent open and her daughter missing, along with her sleeping bag, on the morning the four-year-old vanished from a popular Western Australian campsite.
The four-year-old was holidaying with her mum Ellie, stepdad Jake and her six-month old sister Isla at the Blowholes campsite in Macleod, north of Carnarvon, when she disappeared during the early hours of Saturday October 16.
October 19. Police have sent out new images they think could assist into the investigation into Cleo's whereabouts. A photo of the pink and blue one-piece pyjamas she was wearing when she went to bed was released.
Cleo Smith's abductor Terence Kelly has confessed to kidnapping the four-year-old from her family tent and keeping her captive for 18 days. Kelly, 36, was arrested after detectives raided his Carnarvon house at 12.46am on November 3 and found the little girl alone inside a bedroom playing with toys.
Terence Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of forcibly taking a child under the age of 16 and faces a maximum term of 20 years in prison.
Cleo Smith was reunited with her family on 3 November after Western Australia Police located her alone in a house belonging to Carnarvon man Terence Darrell Kelly, who was taken into custody and charged with two offences, including forcibly or fraudulently taking, enticing away or detaining a child under the age of 16.
Cleo Smith's parents are reportedly considering changing her name to shield her from unwanted attention. A spokeswoman for the WA Police Force said they have encouraged Ms Smith to talk about Cleo's future with the parents of other children who have experienced comparable traumatic events.
In fact, the four-year-old is lapping up all the attention. Ellie Smith says her daughter is coping extremely well with the spotlight after her terrifying abduction ordeal and incredible rescue. “She loves it,” she said in a new promo for an upcoming tell-all TV interview.
The Australian newspaper reported the breakthrough came when police traced a mobile phone number to a phone tower near the campsite around the time of Cleo's abduction. This allegedly focused their attention on Mr Kelly.
Cleo cried out 'mummy' as she finally returned to her mother's arms having not seen her family in an agonising 18 days. Mr Blaine described the little girl as an 'energiser bunny' and confirmed she was physically unharmed when she was found.