Missing girl in Australia

jeanmonroe wrote:
'Fund'.... is "sooo last year, darh-ling"!

Campbell abduction
A man is facing court charged with the abduction of toddler Chloe Campbell from her family home 300km north of Brisbane.

A man has been arrested and charged with the abduction of southern Queensland toddler Chloe Campbell.
The 45-year-old man, who lives one suburb away from the three-year-old girl's family, was charged on Tuesday night with one count of break and enter and one count of deprivation of liberty.
His appearance in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Wednesday also comes six days after Chloe was taken from the lounge of her family home in Childers, sparking a frantic two-day search near Bundaberg.
Chloe went missing before dawn on Thursday last week but was found by police in darkness during the early hours of Saturday morning, wandering around showgrounds across the road from her family home.
The charged man lives in South Isis, one suburb away from Chloe's family, about 300km north of Brisbane.
On the day of Chloe's abduction, her father Garth Campbell indicated it was likely someone who knew the family took his daughter.
"I don't think there's any possible way she's wandered off," he told AAP.
A Queensland police spokeswoman declined to say if the man was a family friend.
"We don't confirm relationships," she said.
Detective Inspector Bruce McNab is holding a media conference in Bundaberg on Wednesday morning.

Chloe Campbell mystery: Police seize parents' clothes
Date April 16, 2014 - 12:01AM

Chloe Campbell went missing from her Childers home.
Speculation is mounting about the involvement of Garth Campbell in his daughter’s unusual kidnapping in central Queensland.
Police have seized the clothes three-year-old Chloe Campbell was wearing when she was found 42 hours after being snatched from her family’s Childers home.
It is understood clothing has also been seized from Mr Campbell and Chloe’s mother Tammy O’Donnell.
The couple has also voluntarily given police DNA samples.
Detective Inspector Bruce McNab said police were searching for fibres, fingerprints and DNA that might lead investigators to Chloe’s abductor.
Chloe was snatched from her home, about 300 kilometres north of Brisbane, about 6am last Thursday.
She was found by police after being dumped at the Childers Showgrounds across the road from her Ridgeway Street home about 1am on Sunday.
Hours before Chloe was found, Mr Campbell was reportedly involved in a drunken fist fight with another man outside the town’s Federal Hotel.
A woman who reportedly witnessed the fight has claimed she overheard the second man yell: ‘‘You know where your daughter is.’’
‘‘He [Mr Campbell] knew ... what happened,’’ the unidentified woman told Nine News.
‘‘He said he knows, but couldn’t do nothing about it.’’
The morning after his daughter disappeared, Mr Campbell said he was certain the kidnapper knew his family, but stopped short of revealing more.
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart did not comment on the veracity of the woman’s claims, but said investigators were keeping an open mind on the case.
‘‘We’ll take action in relation to anyone who’s broken the law,’’ he told reporters on Tuesday.
Chloe’s family believe the intruder snatched the toddler from the lounge room, where she was sleeping with her sisters, via an unlocked window.
Inspector McNab said DNA samples had been taken from about 20 people, including family and friends and ‘‘other people around town whose names have come up’’.
‘‘We’ve had a fantastic result in getting Chloe back alive and well ... but it still leaves that unanswered question of, ‘Who took Chloe?’’ he said.
Inspector McNab said detectives were following ‘‘some lines of inquiry’’, but would not confirm if any persons of interest had been identified.
‘‘We’ve got a number of possible scenarios that we’ve thought of, or that people have told us, and each one of those we’re following to its logical conclusion,’’ he said.
‘‘We’ve spoken to a pretty broad cross-section of the Childers community.’’

The child, who now cannot be identified for legal reasons, was reported missing from her home, about 300 kilometres north of Brisbane, last Thursday morning.
Her face is pixated out.
Her identity complete with picture has dominated world head lines now suddenly she can't be named !!
An example of the legacy of UK law applied in commonwealth country.

Court: Accused abductor 'felt sorry' for how girl was living
NewsMail reporters  15th Apr 2014 11:17 PM  Updated: 16th Apr 2014 1:52 PM
Eden James Kane.
The man accused of abducting a three-year-old Childers toddler says he took the sleeping child because he felt sorry for the way she was living, a court has heard.
Eden James Kane, 45, of Rainbows Rd in South Isis, appeared in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court this morning charged with one count each of burglary, abduction of a child under 16 and deprivation of liberty.
Kane sat slumped in the prison dock, buried his face in his hands, turned his back and avoided the gaze of the public gallery - which included a media pack and the alleged victim's parents - for the duration of his court appearance.

Drugs trigger Childers fire bug
11th Aug 2005

ALCOHOL, marijuana and stopping his course of anti-depressants led a Childers man to light fires around his home and threaten police with a samurai sword early this year.
Bundaberg District Court was told that on January 1, Eden James Kane lit a series of fires around his home, aiming to surround his home with fire before police arrived.
Kane pleaded guilty to wilful damage, four counts of threatening violence, possessing a dangerous drug, possessing a utensil, lighting an unauthorised fire, failing to report a fire and failing to take reasonable action to extinguish a fire.
He also pleaded guilty to a raft of fireworks charges, including storing fireworks in a secured area that is not part of a dwelling or shop, unauthorised possession of explosives, unauthorised use of explosives and using explosives under conditions endangering life.
Crown prosecutor Callan Cas-sidy told the court police were called to Kane's property by the Queensland Rural Fire Service.
Police found Kane roaming around his home wearing only his underwear, smeared in red paint.

sofieellis wrote:This report says he has no connections to the family. But if he doesn't know them, how could he say he felt sorry for the way she was living? It doesn't make sense.

tasprin wrote:If he was a stranger how did he know the children were sleeping in the lounge that night? The father said it must be someone known to them because whoever it was knew the children were sleeping in the lounge (which he described as a one off camping treat). Why would the man feel sorry for the way Chloe was living if the family were completely unknown to him - how would he have a clue how they were living? And why would he only feel sorry for Chloe and not the other children - why take her? It makes no sense at all.