Great news, so happy about this
https://www.watoday.com.au/national...locked-in-carnarvon-home-20211103-p595hg.html
WA Police have found missing four-year-old Cleo Smith alive and well after more than two weeks of searching along the state’s north-west coast.
Officers broke into a locked house in the town of Carnarvon, about 900 kilometres north of Perth, about 1am WA time where they found the young girl in one of the rooms.
Deputy Police Commissioner Col Blanch said one of the officers had taken Cleo into his arms and asked her what her name was.
“My name is Cleo,” the four-year-old responded.
Cleo disappeared from her family’s tent at the Quobba Blowholes, a popular camping ground 50 minutes drive from her home in Carnarvon, some time between the hours of 1.30am and 6am on October 16.
The fact her sleeping bag was also missing and the tent zip would have been out of reach for such a young child led police to believe she had been abducted, sparking a major land and air search.
On Tuesday, the officer in charge of the operation, superintendent Rod Wilde, revealed he believed the girl’s suspected abduction had been an opportunistic incident rather than a planned event.
“We know [Cleo’s family] got there that night ... it was getting dark,” he told Radio 6PR.
“So that would have been limited opportunity for people to observe Cleo at that time.”
Cleo was reunited with her parents shortly after being found by police.
In a statement released on Wednesday morning, Mr Blanch thanked Cleo’s parents, the WA community and all the volunteers that had participated in the search.
