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Am I reading this correctly that the address where they found the child was where her mother’s boyfriend was living?

> "So we narrowed it down to [this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire.

> The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender.

There’s a lot of focus on Facebook in the comments here, but unless I’m missing something the strangest part about this story was that the child’s mother was dating a convicted sex offender and they had to go through all of this process to arrive at this? It’s impressive detective work with the brick expert identifying bricks and the sofa sellers gathering their customer list, but how did this connection not register earlier?

EDIT: As others have pointed out, the wording is confusing. They made these connections to the identity only after identifying the house

parent Aurornis 8 months ago

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