SALISBURY, Md., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Searchers Friday found the body of an 11-year-old Maryland girl allegedly kidnapped from her bedroom by a registered sex offender, authorities said.
The body of Sarah Haley Foxwell was found in northern Wicomico County not far from the Maryland-Delaware state line, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Foxwell, a sixth grader, disappeared from her aunt's home in Salisbury, Md., Tuesday night, dressed in a pink shirt and red pajamas printed with Christmas trees. A younger sister told authorities she saw Sarah leave the room with their aunt's former boyfriend, registered sex offender Thomas James Leggs Jr., the newspaper said, citing court documents.
Leggs, 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. Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said at a Friday news briefing further charges had not yet been filed against Leggs.
"We have been interviewing possible additional victims," Lewis said. "There are several."
Leggs is reported listed on sex offender registries in Maryland and Delaware.
Lewis said police considered Leggs 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."
Court documents indicate Leggs knew where a spare key to the home was kept, The Sun said. Sarah's aunt, Amy Fothergill, said investigators found the girl's toothbrush in Leggs' vehicle.
An estimated 3,000 volunteers took part in the search, the report said.
