Last Saturday night Cleo Smith, a four-year-old Australian girl, went to sleep in her tent with her little sister and her parents, who had decided to take her for the weekend at the Blowholes Shacks campsite in Macleod, north of Perth. At 6.30 the next day, the girl was no longer with them.
The Australian police are now investigating the case, promising to “leave no stone unturned.” The research has been going on for four days and is mainly concentrated around the campsite, located in remote areas of the hinterland. Some attempts are conducted even further away, both by sea and by air. Perth’s forensic staff, police, defense forces and community members, who had begun patrolling the area on the same day, are in charge of it.
The police have currently provided little information on the investigation and have not revealed any hypotheses about the disappearance, but have limited themselves to issuing a photo of the child and the sleeping bag in which she slept, who disappeared with her. It seems, therefore, unlikely that Cleo has wandered off independently. The police also let it be known that several people were present at the camp along with the Smith family.
Have you seen Cleo?
4 year old Cleo was last seen at 1:30am, Saturday 16 October 2021, in a tent at the Blowholes campsite in Macleod (50km north of Carnarvon).
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As soon as they woke up, the parents noticed that the curtain was open and the child was missing, and they started looking for her nearby. “We went looking around for her, making sure she wasn’t around the tent,” her mother, Ellie Smith, told ABC, “Then we got in the car and started shooting everywhere.” The last interaction had taken place the night before, as soon as you went to bed: «I brought you some water. Then she went to bed », said the mother, who assures us« She would never leave us, she would never leave the tent. She is lazy when it comes to walking. Let’s hope she’s here because if I think she’s been kidnapped … a million other things go through our minds. ‘
The case has attracted worldwide attention, but there is still no breakthrough. “We are continuing to focus on identifying any leads, we have our best investigators on the case, the best researchers and other volunteers,” Inspector Jon Munday, assistant district officer for the Mid West region told reporters. Gascoyne. The hostility of the place, deserted and inaccessible, and the passing of the days complicate the searches more and more. “With each passing hour, the situation in this environment for a child … becomes very, very risky,” said Munday, who called the research “a race against time.” “That’s why we are very worried.”