In a room locked with toys: this is how they found the Australian girl who was kidnapped from a campsite

The Police are discovering new details about the case of Cleo Smith, the four-year-old girl they found alive after disappearing from an Australian campsite.

The little girl, four years old, was found in a house in Carnarvon, about 75 kilometers from the campsite. Police he found her around one o’clock in the morning locked in a room surrounded by toys.

The agents in charge of the investigation have indicated that the minor is in good health with her family, while the kidnapper, who is about 36 years old, has already been arrested.

According to the testimony of the neighbors of the arrested person, he had been living in the house for a year and in the last two weeks he had repeatedly left the house. Since his arrest, He has had to be taken to the hospital twice for self-harm.

The authorities broke into the house at dawn, where they found the minor alone in one of the rooms. One of the officers picked her up and asked her name to which she replied, “My name is Cleo,” according to Col Blanch, the Western Australian Police Deputy Commissioner.

At the time of his disappearance, Cleo were inside a tent at the Blowholes campsite, about 875 kilometers north of Perth, with his mother, Ellie Smith, and his stepfather, Jake Gliddon. The girl had woken up at one in the morning on Saturday, October 16 to ask for water, but five hours later, when the mother and her partner got up, they discovered that Chloe and her sleeping bag had disappeared.

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