Accused Perth kidnapper revealed as step-brother of Cleo Smith abductor
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped from a park and assaulted at a nearby home in Perth's northern suburbs on Tuesday.
9News can reveal the accused abductor is Ashley James Bropho, the step-brother of Terence Kelly, who is awaiting punishment for snatching Cleo Smith.
Bropho allegedly lured a child from the Jackson Wilding Reserve park at 10.30am on Tuesday, before she was taken on a seven-minute walk to her accused abductor's home on Sackville Terrace in Doubleview.
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped from a park and assaulted at a nearby home in Perth's northern suburbs on Tuesday. 9News
Police said the girl was only able to escape when a visitor interrupted the alleged attack. She ran and alerted family.
Bropho was arrested a short time later.
A court on Wednesday heard Bropho is part of a community inclusion program and his carer was in the area at the time.
The magistrate refused a plea for his identity to be concealed, even though his lawyer argued there was another similar case involving a family relation.
That relation is Kelly, who admitted to kidnapping Cleo from a Carnarvon campsite in October last year.
Kelly is waiting to be sentenced.
Prosecutors strongly opposed bail and Bropho was kept behind bars.
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