Time for Baird to offer reward for little boy lost
Editorial
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 11 2016 - 12:00AM
'Three-year-old William Tyrrell vanished without trace from outside his grandmother's house at Kendall, on the NSW Mid North coast two years ago on Monday. '
'NSW Police have put huge effort and resources into trying to solve what happened to the toddler in the Spiderman suit on September 12, 2014. Strike Force Rosann, using the skills of some specially-trained investigators experienced in the unexplained disappearance of young children, has so far information about some 600 persons of interests. Information packages relating to about 400 of those persons of interest have been sent to police local area commands across NSW. While the investigation is being run by the Homicide Squad, other teams at NSW Police's State Crime Command, home to the force's elite squads, are also helping with workload.
More than 400 alleged sightings around Australia and in New Zealand have been investigated and run to ground. There has been a media report of a paedophile ring and police have interviewed more than 1000 people in connection with the case and targeted up to 30 men, either suspected or with records of, having a history of child sexual abuse. The search has also spread to Europe and the US. Crime Stoppers websites in some 26 countries have been asked by the Australian Federal Police to post an appeal for information.
But on the second anniversary of the toddler's disappearance, despite the best efforts of police
we appear no closer to knowing what happened than in first minutes after the alarm was first raised on that spring morning in 2014.
The sad and undeniable fact in cases like this is that it can sometimes takes years for justice to be served. '
'Clearly people see things. Somebody must have seen something at Kendall that morning. And it is difficult to escape the conclusion that someone knows something and must be covering up.
Two years after William Tyrrell vanished, with little to show for such a massive police effort, it is time that the Baird government offered a reward for information in hope of bringing closure to this tragic and sad affair.'
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