The family of a three-year-old girl who disappeared more than half a century ago will remain without answers after another uneventful police search.

Cheryl Gene Grimmer was abducted on January 12, 1970, outside a shower block at Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong, on the NSW south coast.

She was enjoying a day at the beach with her mother and three brothers.

In the following decades, numerous searches found little to indicate what happened to her.

Another search can be added to that tally after NSW Police, acting on fresh information, again failed to turn up a trace of the missing girl.

Bones were found and photographed during a police search of bushland in the Wollongong suburb of Balgownie on Friday.

"Following expert advice, the bones were confirmed to belong to an animal," police s

See Full Page