Did Pedophile Cousin Take Missing Florida Girl?

Authorities in Florida are checking into a claim that missing 5-year-old Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings was kidnapped more than a week ago by a pedophile cousin.

According to authorities, the mother and paternal grandmother of Cummings claimed Friday the man in question is a cousin of Misty Croslin, the teenage girlfriend of Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings.

Croslin originally told authorities that the little girl went missing before dawn on Feb. 10 when she got up to go to the bathroom and Cummings was not in her bed.

Police were questioning the cousin, who is from Tennessee, and was visiting Putnam County, Fla. when Cummings disappeared.

Cummings' mother, Georgia resident Crystal Sheffield, said she and other family members have been told that the cousin is a pedophile and has since returned to Tennessee.

Authorities reportedly received a tip from a person in Tennessee who claimed she saw a man in a restaurant with a little girl resembling Cummings.

To date, the little girl's biological father, his girlfriend, and Sheffield have all reportedly passed polygraph tests in the search for the girl.