FORT WAYNE, Ind.?? The FBI on Monday joined the search for a missing 9-year-old Indiana girl and agents are scouring a mobile home park that's also a haven for registered sex offenders.
Agents descended on the mobile home park where Aliahna Lemmon lived in Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne authorities plan to meet Monday afternoon to plan their next move after two straight days without a search for the girl, a sheriff's department spokesman said.
Aliahna went missing from a family friend's home on Friday.
About a half-dozen people in black windbreakers were at the mobile home park Monday. Several identified themselves as FBI agents.
Search dogs were seen at a nearby storage facility.
Aliahna and her sisters were staying at a family friend's nearby home because their mother had been sick with the flu and Aliahna's stepfather works at night and sleeps during the day, The Journal Gazette reported Monday.
Mike Plumadore, 39, told the newspaper Sunday that he left the three girls in his mobile home about 6 a.m. Friday and went to a gas station about a mile away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store's surveillance video shows him there about that time.
"I had deadbolted the door," he said. "When I got back, all the girls was here."
He said he smoked his cigar and went back to sleep, then woke up about 10 a.m. when Aliahna's mother called. After that call, he realized the door to the home was unlocked and that Aliahna was gone. He said Aliahna's sisters, both 6 years old, told him that Aliahna had left with her mom.
Plumadore said it wasn't until he talked with Aliahna's mom about 8:30 p.m. that they realized she was missing and police were notified.
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Aliahna's mother, Tarah Souders, 28, said miscommunication between the two of them caused the delay in determining that Aliahna had vanished.
"She's never wandered off," Souders said. "She's never done anything like this before."
But Aliahna does have a history of sleepwalking, even unlocking doors and going outside while sleeping, said her grandmother, Amber Story.
"I just hope that she's not suffering or in pain," Story said.
Registered sex offenders in the area
Souders said her daughter also has vision and hearing problems and suffers from attention deficit disorder and emotional problems.
In addition, Aliahna has post-traumatic stress disorder, The Journal Gazette reported.
The family believes Aliahna may have left Plumadore's home on her own. Fifteen registered sex offenders live at the Northway mobile home park, where Plumadore's home is, according to the Allen County's Sheriff's Department website.
Plumadore has three felony convictions for battery, auto theft, and forgery.
?I?m not an angel by any means,? he told The Gazette, but added, ?I don?t hurt children. I don?t hurt animals.?
Family members also said they have never seen him hurt anyone.
There are no suspects or persons of interest in the case, including Plumadore and the registered sex offenders in the mobile home park, authorities said, according to The Gazette. Plumadore and other family members have been interviewed.
The Associated Press and msnbc.com's Elizabeth Chuck contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45790781/ns/us_news-life/
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