THE mother of an Australian girl missing and feared dead in North Carolina said today she had only found her daughter on the internet three days before the 10-year-old disappeared.
Speaking on Australia's Channel Seven News - apparently her first media interview - Emily Dietrich said she had not seen her daughter Zahra Baker since giving custody to the girl's father Adam Baker.
"He had no right to do any of it, to keep her from me," she said.
Dietrich said she had only managed to track down Zahra on the internet recently before the girl disappeared.
"I never got to say goodbye. I never got to say hello," she said.
"Why did it happen that I only found her and three days later this happens?"
Dietrich said she was afraid police in the US would uncover more evidence in her daughter's disappearance.
"I don't want them to find more because they would tell a story I don't want to hear," she said.
Dietrich spoke as Hickory police announced this week they had recovered a bone that could belong to the missing girl.
The bone was located after police officers reportedly searched throughout Caldwell County, where the girl's prosthetic leg was found last week and where the Bakers lived until mid-September.
Hickory police are in the middle of one of the largest search efforts they have launched for Zahra, who is feared murdered..................
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