A man who kidnapped a four-year-old girl in Western Australia and held her captive for 18 days was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, in a case that gripped the country
Terence Kelly, 37, who pleaded guilty, abducted a sleeping Cleo Smith from a remote campsite in the early hours of Oct. 16, 2021, and then drove her 75 km to his house, where he kept her locked in a bedroom, the court transcript showed.
"You pose a high risk of seriously psychologically harming any future victim in the event that you did reoffend," she said, according to a transcript of proceedings supplied by the court in the state capital, Perth.A psychiatrist consulted in the case said Kelly suffered from a severe personality disorder arising from childhood neglect, that led him to create a "fantasy world" with the existence of multiple imaginary children by different women.
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