🇦🇺 Australian police are searching for a recently released Aboriginal prisoner with a long history of violence in connection with the abduction of five-year-old Sharon Granites.
Sharon was reported missing from her home at the Old Timers Aboriginal town camp in Alice Springs.
After an extensive search, Northern Territory Police named Jefferson Lewis, 47, as a person who was believed to be in the area around the time Sharon went missing.
Lewis had been staying at Sharon’s home with her mother and other family members. He vanished at the same time as the girl.
Lewis was recently released from prison and has been sentenced multiple times over the past decade for serious assaults, breaching domestic violence orders, violating bail conditions, and resisting police.