Satsuma Florida 5 Year Old Disappears From Bed

A Satsuma Florida 5 Year Old Disappears From Bed while under her Fathers girlfriends care.

More than 130 law enforcement personnel from several local and state agencies are searching for a 5 year old girl, who disappeared from her home in Satsuma, before dawn Tuesday, February 10Th, 2009.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings was last seen at 10 p.m. Monday when her father’s girlfriend put her to bed at their home on Green Lane, off Buffalo Bluff Road.

Deputies and state officers from at least five agencies searched the area and the nearby St. Johns River.

Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, told local Channel 4 there was no doubt in his mind that she was abducted and he’ll do anything to get her back. He continued stating that Haleigh is afraid of the dark and there’s no way she would have gone out in the middle of the night by herself. “I came home this morning to find that I didn’t have a child. Somebody stole my child.”

Putnam County deputies began a search of the area at 3:30 a.m. after the girlfriend found the girl missing and Cummings came home from working a night shift. They found back door of their mobile home open and promptly called authorities by dialing 911.

Harleigh Ann Marie Cummings has been put in the Amber Alert system.

“When you’re dealing with a child of this young of an age along with the time frame that the child has been gone, that elevates it to a higher level and that causes us a little more of a concern for the welfare and safety of the child,” Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Steve Rose said.

Rose said that while they have no reason to suspect foul play, deputies went door to door and searched cars leaving the neighborhood and contacted known sex offenders in the area to establish their whereabouts. They also brought a K-9 unit in to track any leads.

“Whoever has the child is not supposed to have the child at this point,” Putnam County Detective John Merchant said during an afternoon news conference.

Neighboring counties of St. Johns and Volusia sent resources to help find little Harleigh and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has contributed two boats and a helicopter to assist with the search. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office search boat is also helping out on the water ways.

Late afternoon, authorities announced that the FBI was sending a team to join the investigation.

Haleigh Ann-Marie Cunningham’s description is:
blond hair
brown eyes
3 feet tall
weighs 39 pounds

She was last seen in the Hermit’s Cove area of Satsuma wearing a pink shirt and underwear.

At the time of her disappearance, a 2 year old and a 17 year old cousin were also sleeping in the same bedroom as Haleigh. Both were reported as safe and detectives said the 17 year old teenager was not able to help with any information about what happened to Haleigh.

Haleigh’s birth mother, who lives in south Georgia has arrived in Satsuma on Tuesday and is cooperating in the search.

Authorities ask anyone with any information to call the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office at 386-329-0800 or the FDLE’s Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse at
1-888-FL-MISSING.

“Please call and give information to the police department,” Cummings said. “I just want my child back.”

A Satsuma Florida 5 Year Old Disappears From Bed with out a struggle or a sound. Help this family get her back and look out for her.