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44 sex offenders live near Haleigh Cummings' home

Reported by: Don Germaise
Email: dgermaise@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 2/12/2009 3:05 pm
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SATSUMA, FL -- Investigators say there are 44 sex offenders living within five miles of where Haleigh Cummings (special report) disappeared.

Putnam County sheriff's deputies are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said investigators assume Haleigh was abducted because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday found no evidence that she wandered away.

Haleigh's father Ronald Cummings also said he didn't believe she had left their home in the middle of the night.

"I know somebody took her. I know for a fact she didn't wander off -- she's afraid of the dark," Cummings told NBC's "Today" on Thursday.

Haleigh was last seen Monday night in her father's mobile home in Satsuma. The rural community along the St. Johns River is about 70 miles north of Orlando.

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