‘My name is Cleo’: Missing child FOUND by WA police
Cleo Smith has been found after she went missing from a WA campsite about two weeks ago.
In the early hours of this morning, a police team broke their way into a locked house in Carnarvon.
Western Australia Police Force Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch released a statement a short time ago.
“One of the officers picked her up into his arms and asked her ‘What is your name?’
“She said – ‘My name is Cleo’.”
Cleo vanished from her family’s tent at the Blowholes campsite, around 80 kilometres north of Carnarvon, in the early hours of October 16.
She’s since been reunited with her parents.
“This is the outcome we all hoped and prayed for,” Deputy Commissioner Blanch said.
“It’s the outcome we’ve achieved because of some incredible police work.”
A Carnarvon man is being questioned by detectives in police custody.
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Acting Police Commissioner Col Blanch told Gareth Parker about the moment police found Cleo Smith.
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