Mother silent on missing toddler
By Marnie O'Neill
November 14, 2004
FRUSTRATED New South Wales police have reached a dead end in a 10-month search for a baby girl who has "dropped off the face of the earth".
The last independent sighting of Leonie Astra Hutchinson was in Scone in December, 2001 when she was 18 months old.
But police did not become aware she was missing until January this year, when they were investigating an unrelated matter.
Leonie's mother, Kate Hutchinson, who has four other children, has been unable or unwilling to say where her daughter is or what happened to her, detectives say.
"As soon as we realised this child was missing, alarm bells went off," Hunter Valley crime manager Detective Inspector Tim Seymour said.
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With love and HOPE, Lanie
By Marnie O'Neill
November 14, 2004
FRUSTRATED New South Wales police have reached a dead end in a 10-month search for a baby girl who has "dropped off the face of the earth".
The last independent sighting of Leonie Astra Hutchinson was in Scone in December, 2001 when she was 18 months old.
But police did not become aware she was missing until January this year, when they were investigating an unrelated matter.
Leonie's mother, Kate Hutchinson, who has four other children, has been unable or unwilling to say where her daughter is or what happened to her, detectives say.
"As soon as we realised this child was missing, alarm bells went off," Hunter Valley crime manager Detective Inspector Tim Seymour said.
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We will post more info as it becomes available.
With love and HOPE, Lanie