History of man police are searching for over 5yo missing girl<\/a><\/p>\nA man being sought in connection with the alleged abduction of five-year-old Sharon Granites near Alice Springs has a long history of violence and prison time in the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n
“The search area, it’s made up of both urban and rural environments, so we’ve got tall grass, it’s especially high for this time of year due to the amount of rain that they’ve had here, which has made it very challenging,” Senior Constable Von Minden said.<\/p>\n
“Then we’ve got the river bank as well, a lot of sand and bush area, trees, and then the urban side of it, buildings and structure that we’re going through.”<\/p>\n
Police have previously searched the remote communities of Lajamanu and Yuendumu and Senior Constable Von Minden said “if new information comes to light” the current search would be expanded outside Alice Springs.<\/p>\n
“There’s a number of possibilities that we’re working on and we’re trying to direct our search efforts to accommodate all of those possibilities, so we’re not ruling anything out still at this stage,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’re looking for Sharon, that’s our main focus, trying to locate Sharon, that’s our mission and has been since the disappearance was reported to us.”‘We will find her’: NT Speaker joins search<\/p>\n
Independent member for Araluen in the NT parliament, Robyn Lambley, who joined the search yesterday, said Alice Springs was “heartbroken”, with residents “doing everything they can to help find little Sharon”.<\/p>\n
Ms Lambley told the ABC she was part of a group of about 60 volunteers “combing through very high buffel grass” following “a very wet summer” in the Red Centre.<\/p>\n
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Robyn Lambley says helping search for Sharon on Tuesday was “a very solemn and sobering experience”. (ABC News: Pete Garnish)<\/p>\n
“The buffel grass is extremely high, up to our waist and sometimes our chest so you could barely see your own feet let alone what was on the ground,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It was a very solemn and sobering experience … you don’t imagine that you’d ever be in a situation of potentially looking for a lost little girl.”<\/p>\n
Ms Lambley said waking up this morning with no good news from overnight had been “deflating”, with locals “all quite distraught about this”.<\/p>\n
“I woke up several times during the night, I had dreams about it, the first thing I did was walk out and turn the radio on and see if there was any good news about Sharon,” she said.<\/p>\n
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“Everyone is doing everything they can to try and find this poor little girl but I guess we’re all very mindful of the fact that as time goes on that prospect becomes less but look, optimism has to drive us all, we’ve got to get out there.<\/p>\n
“Every single person in a small community is valued and has a place and a purpose and they are valued, when one of us goes missing we are all on board to try and find them so it’s a very emotional time.<\/p>\n
“If she’s out there, we will find her, one way or another.”Loading…Family ‘reeling’ after disappearance<\/p>\n
The head of the Aboriginal organisation that maintains the town camp where Sharon was last seen said he had spoken with her devastated family.<\/p>\n
Tangentyere Council chief executive Walter Shaw said the organisation had been providing her family with food and comfort, while helping to co-ordinate the search.<\/p>\n
“I’ve visited the house with the family, they were sitting out on the verandah, I managed to have a conversation with them \u2014 I’ve had a long-standing history with the family through my community work,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Walter Shaw says Sharon “needs to be back in the arms of her mother”. (ABC News: Xavier Martin)<\/p>\n
“They’re obviously reeling from the circumstances they’re facing with the missing child, but they are appreciative of the work and co-ordination with the police, Tangentyere Council and other key organisations and volunteers within the community.<\/p>\n
“This shows that there is community solidarity and social cohesion with the community to band together to support the family in this very trying time with finding this missing child.”<\/p>\n
Mr Shaw said Sharon’s disappearance was a time for police and the wider community “to band together for a safe and secure rescue of this child”.<\/p>\n
“We want a favourable outcome for the return of this child back to the family,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Society’s got a responsibility to look after our most vulnerable and this is a five-year-old child, a dependent, that needs to be back in the arms of her mother.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for missing girl Sharon Granites has entered its fourth day while police and community members in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1793,1518,22,21,1796,1797,1798,1795,1514,1794],"class_list":{"0":"post-1030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-aboriginal-tracker","9":"tag-alice-springs","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-austrlia","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-expanded-search-area","14":"tag-missing-five-year-old","15":"tag-search-continues","16":"tag-sharon-granites","17":"tag-volunteers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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