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Why did Terence Kelly take Cleo Smith?

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Terence Kelly was sentenced to 13 years and six months' imprisonment. Credit: Getty / Tamati Smith, Instagram / Ellie Smith

Terence Kelly, the man who abducted Cleo Smith, has been sentenced to 13 years and six months' jail. Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty last year to one count of forcibly taking a child under 16. Four-year-old Cleo Smith was found by police more than two weeks after she went missing from a campsite on Western Australia's northwest coast. Renuka brings the story.


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Terence Kelly, the man who abducted Cleo Smith, has been sentenced to 13 years and six months' jail. Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty last year to one count of forcibly taking a child under 16. Four-year-old Cleo Smith was found by police more than two weeks after she went missing from a campsite on Western Australia's northwest coast. Renuka brings the story.


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