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Cherie Westell: The 17-year mystery of the missing Melbourne teenager

 

Cherie Westell: The 17-year mystery of the missing Melbourne teenager
Cherie Westell disappeared without a trace 17 years ago. (Supplied)
Seventeen years is a long time to search for answers.

Another foster child missing from Port Macquarie area - Youlinda Cavanagh-Smith

MISSING FROM PORT MACQUARIE: Youlinda Cavanagh-Smith* ANOTHER FOSTER CHILD HAS DISAPPEARED FROM THE PORT MACQUARIE AREA

POLICE are concerned for the welfare of missing Raymond Terrace girl Youlinda Cavanagh-Smith.
On Saturday, police launched an appeal for the 12-year-old’s whereabouts, after she went missing from Raymond Terrace on Thursday.

Youlinda, who sometimes uses the name “Ameeka”, is described of being of Aboriginal appearance, 152 centimetres tall, with a slim build and tanned skin.

She is also described as having brown hair and brown eyes.

Youlinda was wearing jeans, a black and white jumper, black shoes and a white hat when she was last seen.

She also has a nose and lip piercing.

Coroner’s pledge on William Tyrrell

The NSW Coroner will hold an inquest into the suspected death of missing three-year-old William Tyrrell, who disappeared from his grandmother’s home on the state’s mid-north coast in September 2014.

An exchange of correspond­ence, seen by The Australian, confirms that “an inquest will proceed in William’s case” after it was referred to Coroner Michael Barnes for consideration in Jan­uary 2015.

How innocent Bailey Contable was betrayed by DOCS

 

Bailey Constable - Sandra Campbell and her son Chris / Pic: Craig Greenhill

HE carried four-year-old Bailey's coffin, every bit the grieving step-father. But last week in the Supreme Court, Nathan William Forrest, 22, was all smiles - flashing his family a wink and a thumbs-up after Justice Elizabeth Fullerton jailed him for a minimum of just six years for Bailey's manslaughter.

It was a nightmare end to a family's struggle with the Department of Community Services during Bailey's sad, final months.
His mother Jessica Constable wept during the hearing and maternal grandmother Karen Chapman collapsed in her husband Jeff's arms and was taken to hospital by ambulance.

Infant’s death on reality TV probed in Bridgeport

Live PD films with the Bridgeport Police Department during an evening shift in Bridgeport, Conn. on Nov. 3, 2016. Photo: Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media / Connecticut

BRIDGEPORT — TV viewers nationwide mourned 13-month-old Michael Citron’s death, broadcast on a reality show featuring local cops and law enforcement from five other cities.

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