Parents hit out at police in hunt for missing ten-month-old daughter

A HUNT for a ten-month-old baby who “disappeared” from her Missouri home was mired in controversy yesterday as her parents claimed police were not taking the case seriously.

Jeremy Irwin said he and fiancée Deborah Bradley had “reached boiling point” with investigators who had asked questions suggesting they were to blame for the disappearance of daughter Lisa, nicknamed Pumpkin Pie.

“When they’ve questioned me, once I couldn’t fill in gaps, it turned into ‘You did it. You did it,’” a sobbing Ms Bradley told an American television show, saying that she could not answer detectives’ demands about where her daughter was because she did not know. Ms Bradley claimed she last saw Lisa at 10:30pm on Monday, when she fed the baby then laid her back in her cot at their home in Kansas City before going to bed.

Her husband, an electrician working a night shift, came home at 4am and found the cot empty.

More than 300 officers have scoured the area, even crawling into sewers and climbing down cliffs. The couple have denied that they had “stopped co-operating” with detectives.