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LEESBURG, Fla. -- Thursday was day four in the search for a missing 2-year-old boy. Eyewitness News has uncovered the troubled times his family was going through just before he disappeared.
Trenton Duckett's mother said the boy was taken from his bedroom in Leesburg on Sunday night. The FBI and a national missing child organization are helping the search.
Leesburg police said Thursday that they'll be returning to the Windemere Apartments where Trenton was reported missing. They want to talk to neighbors, family members and registered sex offenders again along with anyone that was at the apartments between 5:00pm and 10:00pm Sunday.
Police stressed that they need the public's help to bring Trenton home.
At two years old, Trenton Duckett's family life was a chaotic one. Now the toddler has been missing for nearly four days.
"We want to hear from anyone who was at the Windemere Apartments between 5 and 10pm Sunday," said Capt. Ginny Padgett.
Leesburg police have made it clear they are still looking at every possibility in the boy's disappearance.
When Eyewitness News poured over court and police records Thursday, it was clear that the days, weeks and months leading up to Trenton's disappearance were bitter ones for his divorcing parents.
In an injunction filed in July, Melinda Duckett accused Trenton's dad of threatening her and their child bodily harm. The complaint included a profanity laced e-mail from Joshua Duckett's MySpace account, the same account Joshua told Bushnell police his wife hacked.
In Leesburg, however, the focus is on Trenton Duckett.
"If the child is being held against its will, it's still encouraging the child may be out there alive," said Andrew Vita, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Thursday, the team from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provided new software to help police streamline their efforts.
"We've brought things like the software to organize investigative leads," Vita said.
The case is in need of new leads, too. The department's hope is that someone has information they may not even know is relevant to the case.
Trenton's grandfather is on death row. James Duckett, a former Mascotte police officer, was convicted of the murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in 1988. At the time, Trenton's father was just shy of his second birthday.
If you have any information to help police find Trenton Duckett call 1-800-225-5324.