Missing three-year-old's mother makes tearful plea for daughter
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Version 0 of 1. The mother of a three-year-old Queensland girl feared kidnapped has made a tearful plea for her daughter to be returned. A helicopter with infrared cameras failed to find the girl overnight after she was reported missing from her Childers home, south of Bundaberg, on Thursday morning. Chloe Campbell's parents fear she was specifically targeted and taken through an open window. Her distraught mother, Tammy, told reporters she just wanted her little girl back. "If anyone out there has any information please come forward. Can you please, just please bring her home," she sobbed. "Or just drop her somewhere and ring up. She needs to be home with her family and her sisters." Chloe's sister, Codi Piper-Campbell, asked the public for information outside the family home on Friday. "I love her, please bring her home," she said. Her father, Garth, was adamant that his daughter was taken by someone who knew the family. "They knew she was sleeping in front of the TV," he said on Thursday. "I don't think there's any possible way she's wandered off." A window was open and Campbell said he saw an adult-sized footprint on the car when he looked out.Chloe's sleeping bag – patterned with wizards and dragons – was gone, along with her stuffed toy dog named Gnarly. State Emergency Service volunteers have been searching bushland, dams and places near the family's home. Concerned residents on horseback and motorbikes also joined the search effort. |