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Florida Police Say Haleigh Cummings Was Abducted

By David Lohr

The search for Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings, a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her Putnam County, Fla., home early Tuesday morning, has gone on for over 50 hours now, and investigators still have no new leads on her whereabouts. The search effort, which initially involved over 130 officers from at least 10 county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, was significantly scaled back today to about 60 active searchers. The reason for the scaleback, according to Maj. Gary Bowling with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, is that investigators believe Haleigh was abducted. "The evidence that it's an abduction is that there's no reason to believe that the child wandered off," Bowling said during a media briefing last night...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).