Terence Kelly will spend over 13 years behind bars for kidnapping 4-year-old Cleo Smith in 2021.
A man has been jailed for 13 years and six months for abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote Western Australia campsite.
The kidnapping sparked a huge police search before Cleo was found alive 18 days later at Kelly's house minutes from her own home.Handing down the sentence at Perth District Court, Chief Judge Julie Wager said the crime displayed "the highest level of seriousness". Cleo Smith had been staying with her family in a tent at a campsite about an hour's drive north of her home town, Carnarvon, 900 kilometres north of Perth.
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