Posted on 12/25/2009 11:27:53 AM PST by EBH
SALISBURY — - More than 3,000 volunteers gathered on Christmas Day to take part in the ongoing search for an 11-year-old girl who police say was kidnapped from her bedroom by a registered sex offender.
The voluneers gathered around 7 a.m. at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium to register for the search. The night before, more than 200 people scoured frozen fields and ponds the night before without success.
Sarah Haley Foxwell was wearing a pink shirt and red pajamas printed with Christmas trees when she disappeared from her maternal aunt's home Tuesday night, police said. A younger sister awoke during the night to see Sarah leave the room with their aunt's former boyfriend, a registered sex offender, according to court documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
Thomas James Leggs Jr., 30, who lived in a building on the grounds of his parents' Salisbury home, was arrested Wednesday and charged with burglary and kidnapping in Sarah's disappearance, police said. Leggs' parents declined to comment Friday afternoon, asking a reporter to leave the property.
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
May they find them both, and use him for a Christmas ornament...
Knowing liberal States’ attitudes towards pederasts (or, as the Left would call them, Pedo-Americans), this guy might get a traffic ticket.
Again with the nogoodnik boyfriend.
They have him in custody.
Looking for her...
The aunt knowingly dated a sex offender. She should be strung up.
Praying for that poor baby.
Not sure that she knew he was a sex offender. Investigators didn’t even realize it right away.
“Leggs “was developed as a suspect early on in the investigation before we were aware of his criminal background, but he does have a criminal history to include third- and fourth-degree sex offenses of small, young females,” said Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis.”
Best wishes that she is found safe.
We had a similar event here in Reno two years ago with a college girl. Did not end well.
keyword added ~ http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mommysboyfriend/index
I am glad to see the community come together to find her. I am a bit fascinated at all the men in the volunteer photo...
“I am a bit fascinated at all the men in the volunteer photo...”
Why? Can’t men love children and good just as much as women?
Notice the bunker gear on several: firefighters.
Prayers for a happy ending.
The the Eastern Shore of Maryland, many strong communities there. Farmers, watermen, lots of hunters. As a native, it’s no surprise to me at all.
Likely my relatives are somewhere in that line.
Gabz - sad delmarva ping
sure they can...
maybe phrased that wrong, but not many women standing in there from what I can tell?
From the article:
“According to charging documents, Fothergill dated Leggs “for a short period of time a month or so ago and ... Leggs just stopped contacting her.” Fothergill told police that she knew that Leggs was a registered sex offender.”
Wow...missed that part.
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