Oakley Carlson was just five when she disappeared in 2021 and now, four years later, she has been declared legally dead View 4 Images Oakley Carlson vanished four years ago (Image: Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office)

A five-year-old girl from Washington in the US vanished without a trace in 2021 and now, four years on, she has been declared legally dead.

Police launched a probe into Oakley Carlson's mum and dad after she went missing.

Oakley was reported missing from her home in Oakville, Washington, in December 2021, and officers have never managed to locate her.

Tragically, little Oakley was officially declared deceased in Pacific County Superior Court after her surviving brothers and sisters submitted a petition through their solicitors, The Olympian reported.

The ruling came

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