They find Cleo Smith, the 4-year-old girl who disappeared two weeks ago from a camp in Australia, locked in a house

Cleo Smith, the four-year-old who disappeared two weeks ago from a camp in Western Australia, she was found alive and well, police said Wednesday.

The police reported that they had found Cleo Smith in a house in Carnarvon, located about 70 kilometers from the camp from which he disappeared, around 1 am on Wednesday and that a man was arrested.

Colonel Blanch, a deputy commissioner, explained that the police broke into a house and found the girl in one of the rooms.

“It is my privilege to announce that in the early hours of this morning, the Western Australian Police Force rescued Cleo Smith“, said. “Cleo is alive and well,” he said.

“One of the officers took her in his arms and asked her: ‘What’s your name?’ She said, ‘My name is Cleo’ “.

The youngest was reunited with her parents shortly after, and her mother Ellie expressed her relief on social media.

“Our family is whole again”, wrote on Instagram with a photo of Cleo.

The girl was found after an extensive search by air, sea and land that led many Australians to express their joy on social media after more than two weeks of anguish.

HOW DID IT DISAPPEAR?

On October 16, Cleo Smith was inside a tent at the Blowholes campsite. next to his mother Ellie Smith, and his stepfather Jake Gliddon. She was last seen at 1:30 a.m. when she woke up to ask for water.

On the day of her disappearance, she was wearing dark pink pajamas, with a pattern of pink flowers, blue branches and yellow butterflies.

The girl’s parents gave an interview to 9News de Australia, in which they detailed everything that happened since they woke up at 6 in the morning.

“We went back to sleep and woke up when Isla (the couple’s youngest daughter) wanted a bottle, when we passed the division and I went to the other room, the closing of the tent was open and Cleo was not there and that was it. I turned to Jake and said, ‘Cleo is gone’ “.

From there they began to search. “We made sure she wasn’t in the store and then we got in the car and drove everywhere.”.

When they couldn’t find her, they reported it to the police.

The parents counted the distribution inside the tent: “Cleo was on a mattress, our baby was next to her in a crib, we had a split and then we were on another mattress.”

During the interview, the girl’s mother and her partner thanked the public for helping to locate her. “We have had many families who have helped and supported us. Everybody asks us what we need, and what we need is our little girl at home”the woman pointed out.

Smith describes her daughter as a sweet, delicate person with a big heart, who every day “wants to wear a princess dress” and who is what “everyone would want in a girl”.

The parents counted the distribution inside the tent: “Cleo was on a mattress, our baby was next to her in a crib, we had a split and then we were on another mattress.”

Australian authorities even offered a million Australian dollars (US $ 750,000) in exchange for information leading to the girl’s whereabouts.

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