Reports suggested that the Nine Network reportedly paid Cleo Smith's parents a sum of $2 million to share their story of the events that transpired after their daughter was kidnapped and found 18 days later.
WA Police Minister Paul Papalia has also been interviewed for the piece. It's the second interview Ms Smith and Mr Gliddon have had with 60 Minutes; they were paid $2million for an interview with Brown in February 2022, about three months after Cleo was rescued.
Parents Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon have reportedly accepted a $2 million cheque from the Nine Network to tell their story of the events that unfolded over the course of 18 harrowing days and the efforts to find the four-year-old.
60 Minutes interview with Cleo Smith's parents was done on Zoom after Nine paid $2 million.
Nine's exclusive tell-all with the family of Cleo Smith was conducted over video call – a fact that's raised eyebrows with some considering the network reportedly paid $2 million for the interview.
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Wager found Kelly lacked concern for others and was a high risk of reoffending. She sentenced him to 13 years and six months jail, and made him eligible for parole. With time served, Kelly could be released in 2033.
In an interview after Cleo's disappearance, Ellie said the girl had gone to bed in the family's tent at around 8 p.m., woke up early the next morning at 1:30 a.m. asking for water, and had returned to sleep after being given water.
Cleo Smith's biological father Daniel Staines has sp...
Daniel Staines lives in Halls Head with his parents. A woman at the home handed a typed statement to The West Australian in which the Staines family sent Cleo, her mother Ellie Smith and stepfather Jake Gliddon their “best wishes”.
She also disclosed the four-year-old's hair had been cut and dyed by her abductor in a detail missed by many but noticed almost immediately by her parents. She said the little girl's abduction had been 'random' with Kelly first unzipping her side of the tent before walking around to Cleo's side and snatching her.
The sleeping bag Cleo Smith was dreaming in before she was allegedly abducted from her family's tent almost one month ago has still not been found. Close sources to the investigation have confirmed to The West Australian that despite a massive search for the red and grey sleeping bag, it is still missing.
Cleo Smith's mother Ellie Smith and partner Jake Gliddon.
But while the judge said in sentencing that she accepted that Kelly wanted a real child of his own, she believes it was drugs – not delusion – that caused him to steal one.
Ellie Smith's world stopped when her daughter was snatched as her family slept in their tent at the remote Blowholes campground in Western Australia in 2021. "She still has her sad nights, her nightmare nights," her mother said, speaking to 60 Minutes besides Cleo's stepdad, Jake Gliddon.
Her parents, Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon, have revealed Cleo suffers weekly nightmares and has lost some of her independence as a result of the 18 days she was separated from her family.
“We are all absolutely overjoyed at the good news this morning and so happy that Cleo has been reunited with her mum and dad,” the typed statement, handed to the West Australian, read.
He ran away and ended up with foster parents near Lancaster, Pa. Their sister Cleo was also adopted by an American family.
The anguished parents of Cleo Smith are having to contend with callous abuse on Facebook from online trolls, even though police say they are not suspects in her disappearance.
The man who snatched four-year-old Cleo Smith from her family's tent at a remote WA campsite and kept her captive for 18 days has lodged an appeal against his sentence.
Cleo Smith was missing for eighteen days and was found by police in Kelly's Carnarvon home. Kelly, who's now aged 37, confessed to the crime. In the District Court in Perth he was sentenced to 13 years and six months in jail. He must serve at least 11 years and six months before he'll be eligible for release on parole.
So besides the fact that Cleo has slept in Beth's bed (without Beth sleeping next to her), there are no other proofs that would say that they had sex. Most likely, they got drunk, went to Beth's room, got drunk more and eventually passed out.
A man has been jailed for 13 years and six months for abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote Western Australia (WA) campsite.
Cleo Smith interview: Nine staff furious by more than $2 million fee paid by network for TV rights.
On Wednesday the WA supreme court chief justice, Peter Quinlan, read out consent orders in favour of Terrance Flowers, a 27-year-old Nyamal man from the town of Karratha.