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[Link] US girl missing since 2019 found alive in hidden room

Read: 16/2/2022 www.abc.net.au

Two years after she went missing, a 6-year-old girl in the United States has been found alive and in good health.

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[Link] This is what we know about William Tyrrell case

Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

For seven years, the case of the missing boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume has confounded the state's top detectives. Three-year-old William Tyrrell appeared to have vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's house at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast.

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[Link] The weight of a nation's relief hangs heavily on Cleo and her family

Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

The one anxiously peering from the gate as your child freewheels away on their bike, just as they should. You remind yourself of the entire days you spent as a child away from your home, so far from your parents' view.

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[Link] Remote WA town steamrolled by media attention as Cleo Smith rescued

Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

For a sleepy beach town of 5,000 people, it was three weeks in the eye of a storm. The visceral shock of a vulnerable little girl just disappearing in the night resonated around the world.

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[Link] 7 News apologises for wrongly identifying Aboriginal man as suspect in Cleo Smith case

Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au

Seven News has apologised for identifying an Aboriginal man as the 36-year-old suspect that was arrested by WA police over the Cleo Smith abduction. The network published a number of photographs of the man on Wednesday along with his name.

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