Terence Kelly will be sentenced over two days in December,just over a year after four-year-old Cleo Smith was rescued from his Carnarvon home.
He entered a not guilty plea and was remanded to May 23 for a trial allocation date.
Terence Kelly,who recently pleaded guilty to child abduction,will also enter a guilty plea to the charge of assaulting a police officer while in custody.
Seven West Media has been forced to pay out the man wrongfully identified in news reports as Cleo Smith’s abductor.
Nine’s lucrative deal to tell the story of Cleo Smith’s abduction raised eyebrows,but chequebook journalism is more complex than it seems.
Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon had no idea police had hours earlier put together the final pieces of a data jigsaw which would lead detectives to storm a house a mere seven kilometres away from where they were staying.
During an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday,Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon revealed their four-year-old daughter was still coming to terms with being held captive by a stranger for 18 days.
Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde has become a national hero in the Australia Day honours.
Kelly,36,was arrested after detectives raided his Carnarvon house at 12.46am on November 3 and found the little girl alone inside a bedroom playing with toys.
The Nine Network will pay almost $2 million for an interview with the family of Cleo Smith in what is believed to be one of the largest deals in Australian television history.
Cleo Smith’s alleged abductor,Terence Kelly,has been charged with assaulting a public officer the day after the four-year-old’s dramatic rescue from his Carnarvon home in WA’s north.