Australian police to charge man with abduction after missing Cleo Smith found

Australian police to charge man with abduction after missing Cleo Smith found
Cleo Smith is carried by her mother Ellie Smith (Richard Wainwright/AAP/AP)

Police are expected to charge a 36-year-old man with abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith from her family’s camping tent in Australia, with the child found 18 days later when officers rescued her from a locked house.

The man was arrested early on Wednesday around the time that police found the child alone in the house in the Western Australia town of Carnarvon, with the smiling girl telling officers “my name is Cleo”.

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