Police have charged a man over the abduction of a three-year-old girl from her home at Childers in south-east Queensland.
This is good, but there are a lot of questions to be answered regarding Chloe's disappearance, some of them, I fear, may be troubling. Please pray for the Campbell's children.
Her parents raised the alarm last Thursday morning after waking to find their child had been taken from the family home during the night.
The girl's disappearance sparked a major air-and-land search and desperate appeals for public help from her distraught mother and father.
Police called it a miracle when the little girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, (it's a bit late for that) was found by officers wandering alone in the town's showgrounds near her home in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police have taken DNA samples from more than 20 people, including friends and family, as the hunt for Chloe Campbell's abductor continued.
Det Insp Bruce McNab confirmed police have also taken fingerprints and footprint samples. He stressed all the samples had been given voluntarily.
Earlier it was reported, Chloe has described her apparent abductor as "daddy's friends".
The three-year-old used the words when answering family and friends about her mysterious two-day disappearance.
Det Insp McNab told The Courier-Mail the little girl had provided police with “information (they) can use”.
He said Chloe’s secrets had led police to pursue a particular line of inquiry, but detectives were keeping an open mind and pursuing several leads.
But Insp McNab said Chloe had not referred to “daddy’s friends” when questioned by specialist police investigators who have spoken to her several times.
“At no time has she made that reference (about daddy’s friends”) to police,” he said. “Chloe has obviously spoken to family but they've never told us about daddy’s friends.”
Police were yesterday taking statements and interviews following The Courier-Mail’s revelations Chloe’s apparent kidnapping could be payback.
The Courier-Mail’s own investigations have further uncovered Chloe’s parents’ association with known drug dealers in Childers.
A family friend said the couple was friends with a drug-dealing family, one of whom was said to have threatened Mr Campbell nine weeks ago.
The Courier-Mail can reveal Mr Campbell was seen on a street near his house the morning Chloe was reported missing, about 20 minutes before police received the call.
It was also about 20 minutes before security footage shows two men and a child passing along the railway line behind Pioneer Park, only a few hundred metres from Chloe’s house on the same morning she vanished.
Locals say the girl and her parents regularly walk that same route from their house on the way to town.
Last week The Courier Mail reported that the video appeared to indicate a child leading the way - as though it knew where it was going - followed by two men.
The family told the public and police that an intruder may have used an unlocked lounge room window to get into the house.
With police tape no longer blocking the street, it can be seen that a number of smashed and open windows could give an intruder access to the home.
Police say a 45-year-old man from South Isis was charged with abduction, break and enter, and deprivation of liberty late last night.
He is due to appear in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court this morning.
This is good, but there are a lot of questions to be answered regarding Chloe's disappearance, some of them, I fear, may be troubling. Please pray for the Campbell's children.
Her parents raised the alarm last Thursday morning after waking to find their child had been taken from the family home during the night.
The girl's disappearance sparked a major air-and-land search and desperate appeals for public help from her distraught mother and father.
Police called it a miracle when the little girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, (it's a bit late for that) was found by officers wandering alone in the town's showgrounds near her home in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Det Insp Bruce McNab confirmed police have also taken fingerprints and footprint samples. He stressed all the samples had been given voluntarily.
Earlier it was reported, Chloe has described her apparent abductor as "daddy's friends".
The three-year-old used the words when answering family and friends about her mysterious two-day disappearance.
Det Insp McNab told The Courier-Mail the little girl had provided police with “information (they) can use”.
He said Chloe’s secrets had led police to pursue a particular line of inquiry, but detectives were keeping an open mind and pursuing several leads.
But Insp McNab said Chloe had not referred to “daddy’s friends” when questioned by specialist police investigators who have spoken to her several times.
“At no time has she made that reference (about daddy’s friends”) to police,” he said. “Chloe has obviously spoken to family but they've never told us about daddy’s friends.”
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The Courier-Mail’s own investigations have further uncovered Chloe’s parents’ association with known drug dealers in Childers.
A family friend said the couple was friends with a drug-dealing family, one of whom was said to have threatened Mr Campbell nine weeks ago.
The Courier-Mail can reveal Mr Campbell was seen on a street near his house the morning Chloe was reported missing, about 20 minutes before police received the call.
It was also about 20 minutes before security footage shows two men and a child passing along the railway line behind Pioneer Park, only a few hundred metres from Chloe’s house on the same morning she vanished.
Locals say the girl and her parents regularly walk that same route from their house on the way to town.
Last week The Courier Mail reported that the video appeared to indicate a child leading the way - as though it knew where it was going - followed by two men.
The family told the public and police that an intruder may have used an unlocked lounge room window to get into the house.
With police tape no longer blocking the street, it can be seen that a number of smashed and open windows could give an intruder access to the home.
Police say a 45-year-old man from South Isis was charged with abduction, break and enter, and deprivation of liberty late last night.
He is due to appear in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court this morning.
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