An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 5-year-old girl from Putnam County in northeast Florida.
Haleigh Cummings was last
seen at her home in Satsuma at 3 this morning, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.
The child is 3 feet tall, weighs 39 pounds and has blond hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear, the sheriff's office said.
Detectives have not released details surrounding her disappearance.
At least 25 registered sex offenders live near the missing girl's home in Satsuma.
A missing child alert was issued early this morning. It was changed to an Amber Alert shortly before 11 a.m. An Amber Alert is issued in serious, time-critical child-abduction cases and is not used for cases of runaways or parental abductions except in life-threatening situations, according to the Department of Justice Web site.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts should call the Putnam sheriff's office at (386) 329-0808 or 911.


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I hope this one turns out good but I have my doubts.
Praying
What is with the state of Florida and all the missing kids? I just finished watching Caylee Anthony's beautiful funeral on t.v........and yet, the little Creole boy is still missing in Florida........very scary!
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an inside the family circle result.
At this point it appears the last person to see the child was Misty (the girlfriend). Did she
in frustration take discipline too far? Doesn't sound like the father was very sensitive. At
one point he told police that "his dumb (expletive) girlfriend lost his child. This young girl herself would of had high frustration being the sole caregiver of too young kids with him
working nights and sleeping days. A tough job for anyone never mind a teen. The stories
she has told have begun to unravel and she has begun changing them. This door she
claims is always locked, yet it is propped wide open with a cinder block. A kitchen light she turned off is left on by an intruder? Doubtful. A sleeping child is lifted from the bed where
3 people are sleeping and no one awakens? The father claims he and the girlfriend have taken and passed poligraphs, however police when asked stated they would not be commenting on poligraph results which would indicate that no one has been ruled out.
With the exterior activities on the rise, ie George Anthony going to the family to lend
support, the bounty hunter introducing a 25 k award and the Nancy Grace show making this the front line on the show this will sadly become another frenzied orgy of speculation and conjecture.
Don't get me wrong, George Anthony's desire to be supportive is understandable and in a
way commendable but I wonder what emotional support he may have to lend with his
raw emotion still high. Not his fault but his presence will add to the circus atmosphere.
While this situation seems to draw the media there is another young child who has gone
missing in between Caylee and Haleigh and most do not even know his name.
rushing to lend support to his family. He is also missing from Florida since Jan. 10, 2009.
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I work with an organization dedicated to the missing so I know that there are often cases
that just do not get the same coverage. There are many MP cases that get no coverage.
It isn't just in relationship to ethnic lines, although that does seem to be one group that
gets overlooked. There are others. Teenagers are quickly assumed to be runaways and
so they are routinely ignored. Then of course the adult population that engages in what can be called risky life styles who get no publicity locally, let alone nationally. If people
knew just how many missing persons there are nationally they would be appalled. The numbers are in the thousands.