Cleo Smith’s mum has told that a kidnapper invented a sick story to convince her four-year-old daughter to leave the family tent, saying that her baby sister was unwell.
The disappearance of the toddler from a campsite in Western Australia caught the imagination of the world as a desperate search began on October 16, before she was found 18 days later.
Finally she was traced to the home of Terrence Darrell Kelly, 36 who has pleaded guilty to taking her from the Blowholes campsite.