Police believe man suspected of abducting five-year-old Aboriginal girl is being helped by some in the community

A T-shirt worn by Jefferson Lewis was found next to a pair of children’s underwear on the banks of the Todd River, police say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Northern Territory police have issued a warning to community members they believe may be hiding information on the whereabouts of a 47-year-old man wanted over the alleged abduction of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl in Alice Springs. The young girl, Sharon, was last seen by her mother at 11.30pm on Saturday. A short time before her disappearance she was seen near a man named Jefferson Lewis, who was holding her hand. An arrest order was issued for Lewis on Sunday. On Wednesday, police said they believed Sharon was still alive. But they said if she was walking alone in the bush, her survival was “right on the threshold”. Peter Malley, assistant commissioner for crime and intelligence, said police had found a “number of items” near the house on Marshall Court at Old Timers camp where the child was last seen. “We seized a number of items from that crime scene, being a doona cover, the shirt that Jefferson Lewis was wearing – it was a distinct yellow one – and we seized a pair of child’s underwear from