Abducted Child Still Missing - Please help to find her!

Yet another little girl was likely abducted from her home in Florida and authorities are desperately seeking clues to her disappearance. Five-year-old Haleigh Cummings is missing and we all hope that a search turns her up alive and well. Here's what you can do to help.

According to CNN Haleigh was likely abducted from her home in rural Florida some time during the night on Tuesday when her father's girlfriend called police to say the child had vanished from her Putnam County home in the middle of the night, and the police assume it was an abduction. There are things we can do to help, without hindering the police investigation by calling in a tip every time you see a little girl that looks like Haleigh. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear, and according to the police, "all the world's a suspect" in the little girl's disappearance.

Look at every child's face you see, especially if you live in the state where she was abducted, or even a surrounding state. If you see a child that looks like Haleigh - and you will - assess her surroundings and the people she is with. Does she look frightened? Do the people with her seem nervous? Do things just look like they are not right? Just because you see a child that resembles the photograph holding a man's hand and walking happily through the park up in Maine, please don't waste the police department's time by calling in a "tip." Use your common sense. Anyone with any information is encouraged to call the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 386-329-0800 or the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse at 888-FL-MISSING.

Every new case involving missing children brings to mind another horrible one to me, the Susan Smith case, in which she strapped her two toddler sons in their carseats in her car and ran the car into a lake, drowning them both. I couldn't sleep for months without the picture of those boys in my head, and I can still see her tearful cries in the media after she had told authorities that a Black man had taken the car and her boys.

Then, there's the horrible case of Caylee Anthony. Caylee was not a famous movie star, nor was she a world-renowned musical artist; she never discovered a cure for cancer and she never found life on other planets. Caylee didn't write books, nor was she an award-winning teacher that inspired future generations. She might have done those things if given the chance, but we'll never know. Everyone knows her name, however, and some of us cry for her every single day. Caylee was just a beautiful little girl and I can't help but think of her every time I hug my two-year-old granddaughter. I don't think there's a person on this planet that doesn't know the outcome of that case, and we can't help her now, but we might help to save little Haleigh. Of course, Susan Smith and Casey Anthony (Caylee's mother who has been charged with murder) were both apparently monsters who killed their own children, and there has been no indication of that type of foul play in this case.