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Man charged with stealing Cleo Smith bought toy dolls in the years leading up to abduction
The 36 year-old Western Australian man charged over the abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith has an infatuation for dolls
Terence Darrell Kelly, has been charged with multiple offences including child stealing.
He faced Carnarvon Magistrate’s Court on Thursday and did not apply for bail and was not required to enter a plea.
Social media of alleged abductor
Kelly collects bratz dolls and is pictured on his social media wearing a shirt with the toy brand on it.
There’s also pictures on his Facebook of an entire doll collection and selfies commenting on brushing the Bratz dolls hair.
One post from last year saying “I love taking my dolls for drive arounds”
A lot of dolls are still in their original packaging. It appears to be an impressive collection, not limited to Bratz dolls – with Disney princesses and other little girls toys part of it all too.
It has been reported he bought toy dolls in the years leading up to the alleged kidnapping.
Kelly’s identity was revealed late on Wednesday afternoon after he was taken to hospital twice as he reportedly harmed himself in a police cell.
Why does he collect dolls?
Cleo found playing with toys
The detective leading the investigation into the alleged abduction revealed officers said they found Cleo playing with toys in one of the rooms.
Police have visited stores in the town’s main shopping street.
They asked business owners to hand over CCTV footage over the last two-and-a-half weeks.
The Australian have reported he bought dolls from Carnarvon Toyworld within the last three weeks with staff assisting detectives by scouring through archived security footage.
“He was in here three or four times a year buying girls’ toys, Disney princesses and others things like that,” a worker told the publication.
The man was known to police
Police still needed to establish what happened during the 18 days she was missing, describing it as a “traumatic event”
Kelly will face court again on December 6th.
Police have confirmed he was well known to Police and a familiar face in the community.
“It was literally a needle in a data haystack,” Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde said.
Reports alleged abductor was following Cleo’s mum on Facebook, according to a nine 6pm report.
Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde is calling on people to refrain from sharing their opinions of the case online.
“Everyone please keep those theories to yourself and don’t go sticking them on social media — it’s very unhelpful.”
A team of 140 detectives, officers and analysts have been working tirelessly for more than two weeks since her alleged kidnapping from the family’s tent in the early hours of October 16.
Police have previously said this investigation is just at the tip of the iceberg and there are more details to emerge.
“The information acted on from last night (Monday) onwards starts out really small and quickly snowballs,”Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde said.
“There were car movements, and there were phone movements. The jigsaw fit the puzzle.”
Cleo has been pictured in the arms of her mother for the first time.
Officers who specialise in interviewing children have been brought in to assist the investigation as the the rest of the world watches on, relieved that she is safely home.
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