Investigators think missing Fla. girl was abducted

[February 12, 2009]  SATSUMA, Fla. (AP) -- Investigators say they're treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction.

The Putnam County sheriff's office says they are assuming she was abducted because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood found no evidence that she wandered away.

Haleigh (hay-lee) Cummings was last seen Monday night in her father's mobile home in Satsuma. The rural community is about 70 miles north of Orlando.

Haleigh was reported missing when her father returned home from work early Tuesday. His girlfriend had woken up and discovered the child was missing.

Authorities have searched the neighborhood and divers have probed the adjoining St. Johns River.

[Associated Press]

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