Accused of the abduction of the Australian girl had a room full of dolls

The 36-year-old man accused on Thursday by the Australian police of kidnapping the four-year-old girl Cleo Smith for 18 days had a room full of dolls in his house, whom he sometimes took for walks, local media reported today.

Terence Darrell Kelly was arrested at dawn on Wednesday after the police found the girl alive and without physical harm, who had kept the country in suspense since her disappearance when she was with her family at a campsite on October 16. .

Since Kelly’s arrest, a video of the defendant in a room with dozens of dolls, some of them in their original box, has been released on social media, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.

In addition, Kelly also posted on Facebook in April 2020 photos of her taking a doll for a car ride with the comment: “I love taking my dolls for car rides and fixing their hair and taking selfies in public.”

According to this newspaper, in another Facebook post from July 2020, Kelly appeared in another photo wearing a Bratz doll brand T-shirt and holding a doll in each hand.

“There is nothing like relaxing at home with my Bratz dolls,” commented the suspect below that same image.

Kelly appeared today before a court in the town of Carnarvon, in northwestern Australia, where he was charged with several charges (the Police did not detail them to protect the little girl), including one for forcibly taking a child under 16 years old, according to a statement released to the media.

The defendant, who must appear on December 6, was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday on a street in the town of Carnarvon, in northwestern Australia, shortly after he rescued the minor from her home where he was keeping her under wrench.

Police indicated that the suspect – who was taken to the hospital twice after attempting to injure himself and was questioned for more than 30 hours – allegedly acted alone, and confirmed that he had no ties to the minor’s family nor was he in the records of pedophiles. .

In the morning, the South Australian authorities, who visited Cleo at her family home in Carnarvon, about three kilometers from the place where she was found, stated that the minor is “physically well”, as well as playing and appears to behave naturally.

The Police assured in a press conference that during the medical examination of the minor no physical damage was found, while a team of specialists will speak with the little girl at the right time to evaluate the psychological aspects.

The police also published in the afternoon the audio of the moment in which the officers found Cleo, who with her childish voice said her own name to her rescuers.

The little girl disappeared at dawn on October 16 when they were inside a tent at the Blowholes campsite, 75 kilometers from where she was rescued, along with her mother and 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 Cleo and her sleeping bag had disappeared. (I)