Deputies Comb Fla. Town For Missing Girl

(AP)  Sheriff's deputies searched house-to-house Wednesday and dive teams probed the St. Johns River for a 5-year-old north Florida girl who went missing from her bed.

A Florida Amber Alert was issued for Haleigh Cummings of Satsuma, about 70 miles north of Orlando. The girl was last seen Monday night when she went to bed.

Investigators with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said it was not clear if Haleigh was abducted or wandered out into the rural neighborhood that borders the river. They said the mobile home where she lives had no signs of forced entry, but a back door was open.

Haleigh's father told investigators the blond girl was missing when he returned home from work around 3 a.m. Tuesday. Ronald Cummings said his girlfriend was awake and frantic that Haleigh was missing from her bed.

"I just got home from work and my 5-year-old daughter is gone," Ronald Cummings told a dispatcher on a 911 call. "If I find whoever has my daughter before you all do, I'm killing them. I don't care if I spend the rest of my life in prison."

Officers from local, state and federal agencies and K-9 teams scoured the neighborhood. Check points were set up at the entrance to the neighborhood to search departing vehicles. Two dive teams explored the St. Johns River. Neighbors and family members also were being interviewed by detectives.

The girl's disappearance has not been classified as an abduction, although detectives were treating it as one to cover all their bases, said Lt. Johnny Greenwood, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.

"We're currently working both angles - did she wander off, we're working it that way with the searches," Greenwood said. "And investigators are doing interviews in case it is an abduction."

[Haleigh1989]

Kim Picazio is the lawyer for Crystal Sheffield Haleigh Cummings mother.
Art Harris recently posted a letter to the court from Kim Picazio. This letter was about Crystal Sheffield and her family. Kim said that Crystal lied to her, that Crystal was a drug addict. That the reason she did not seek custody in court is that proof existed that Crystal was a drug addict. That Crystal Sheffield gave birth to a drug addicted baby. That Crystal lost the children because she was on drugs (just like the father said). Kim also said that Crystal had no intrest in Haleigh and did not even exersize her visitation or show up in court. Only since Haleigh went missing had Crystal wanted people to see her in a better light. That Crystal lied to Kim Picazio about many issues and Kim only found out after she went on Television and told these things to the public. Things that were not true. Things Crystal knew were lies. Kim also said Crystal and her mom just wanted to make money off of missing Haliegh. That many of their actions seemed really wrong to her when you consider that Haliegh was missing. I think if people read what Kim has to say (Art Harris has this letter posted)- they will see the truth about Crystal. If anyone had a motive Crystal and her family did. But even if they did not take Haleigh, they wanted her father ruined and that was their goal. A goal more important to them then finding Haleigh.
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[rrozsa-2009]

If foul play was involved, it''ll probably be hard to prove it, if they find her drowned in the river.

[lena34-2009]

i am sorry but i think that the girlfriend did this, hell, she is young why should she have to look out for this kid

[rrozsa-2009]

I have a feeling the child wandered into the river in the darkness.

[rrozsa-2009]

My son got up in the pre-morning hours, while we were asleep, and left the house when he was about 4. Luckily for us, a he rang the neighbor''s doorbell and wanted to know if his friend could come out and play. She sent him home, and he went back to bed. We never even knew about it until she told us about it the next day. All sorts of weird things can happen when you have an energetic, fearless child. I hope this turns out well.

[floridasux3]

I feel for the family of this missing little girl...but there are too many strange things...NO ONE heard ANYONE eenter that room and take a child? How *** big was that bed? And, after watching the father and family on TV..talk about hicks. Not a grain of intelligence between them...Jesus...either way, that kid is doomed.

[ubrew12]

Is something going on with Florida??

[spinproof]

"I just got home from work and my 5-year-old daughter is gone," Ronald Cummings told a dispatcher on a 911 call. "If I find whoever has my daughter before you all do, I''m killing them. I don''t care if I spend the rest of my life in prison."

And that about sums that up!

[irisheyes555]

Jessica Lunsford was a stranger abduction out of her father''s mobile home where his parents also lived. It is NOT always parental murder. *** offenders eager to get their hands and other things on pretty little blonde girls live absolutely everywhere and are always stalking and scheming to get another one.

I dont want to speculate but I hope lessons where learned from previous cases in florida