Toddler may have been ‘kidnapped to order’

THE head of a major search for a two-year-old Irish girl who disappeared in New Zealand on Monday has admitted the toddler may have been kidnapped to order.

Since Monday afternoon Aisling Symes, whose father is originally from Stradbally in Co Waterford, has been missing from her home in Auckland, New Zealand.

Almost 100 police officers and volunteers have scoured the surrounding area over the past six days in the hope of finding some clue to the toddler’s disappearance.