Montgomery County Search Continues for Jacob and Sarah Hoggle

Troy Turner, the father of two young children missing from Montgomery County for three weeks, firmly believes his children are alive and in the county.

Catherine Hoggle, 27, of the 12200 block of Elm Forest Court in Clarksburg, and her children, Jacob Hoggle, 2, and Sarah Hoggle, 3, went missing on Sept. 8. Hoggle was found a few days later, but the children remain missing.

The mother has been described by family members as a paranoid schizophrenic who quit taking her medication a few weeks before she disappeared with the toddlers.

Hoggle was arrested on Sept. 12 and initially charged with child neglect and obstructing and hindering. She has refused to give any information about the children’s location to her parents, Turner or police.

“Anyone who knows anything, please just call,” Turner told Montgomery Community Media. “If you are someone out there who has the kids or know someone who’s helping them, drop them off at a hospital, a library, a fire department, anything.”

“I don’t care who you are. I don’t want to know who you are. Give me back my kids and everything is cool,” Turner said.

Montgomery County police say the case is shifting over to a homicide investigation, but Turner still believes the toddlers are alive.

Turner told Montgomery Community Media that because Catherine Hoggle continued to return to Germantown in the days after the children went missing, he believes his children are still in Montgomery County.

“She was predictably in that area,” Turner said.

A Facebook page has been set up to spread awareness of the Hoggle case. A Go Fund Me account has been established to create a reward in the case and had $2,767 in the account late Wednesday afternoon.

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