Cleo Smith has been gone almost a week. Why missing children cases grip the nation
- Written by Xanthe Mallett, Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle
The smiling, pigtailed toddler in the gold heart top. A picture of innocence, and sadly the image many people will now recognise – Cleo Smith, the latest Australian child to vanish without a trace.
Four-year-old Cleo disappeared from her family’s tent during the night at a campground north of Carnarvon, in Western Australia.
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