Psychic looks for girl, finds woman’s body

SYDNEY - A psychic acting on a hunch that the body of a missing Sydney schoolgirl would be in a public park found the torso of a missing woman there instead, police said Thursday.

Police have contacted the family of a 31-year-old mother not seen for two months but would not confirm a link with the headless, armless and legless corpse found wrapped in plastic sheet.

“It’s very sad to say that an adult female torso has been found where the witnesses said they thought there was a body,” Chief Inspector Pam Young told reporters.

“It’s quite interesting that a woman had a sense or a feeling that it was worth her while to come to this particular part of the park.”

The psychic was searching for a six-year-old girl missing from her Sydney home for almost two weeks.

“For those who believe in such things, I understand that the woman thinks that she might have some powers along that line,” Young said. “I have certain strong feelings about people who claim they are psychic. I don’t think it will help if we enter a discussion on that.”