Family: Search Fund for Missing Hoggle Children Depleted

The Hoggle siblings have been missing in Montgomery County since early September, but the fund set up to help pay for the ongoing search has run out of money, family members say.

Sarah Hoggle, 4, and Jacob Hoggle 2, were last seen with their mother, Catherine Hoggle, who is being held in the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center and treated for mental illness. Catherine Hoggle has not given any information on the children’s whereabouts, and her lawyer says she is incompetent to stand trial.

The family of the missing children have organized searches every weekend since the children disappeared, using the Germantown Community Center as a home base, according to Montgomery Community Media.

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The goal now is to raise $10,000 to replenish the fund and continue searching for the children, the news outlet reports. The money will help alleviate costs for fliers, other equipment used to search for the children and help cover income lost by the toddlers’ father, Troy Turner.

Lindsey Hoggle, Catherine Hoggle’s mother, told Montgomery Community Media the Christmas season has been an emotional one for the family. She said she has had to leave stores because she couldn’t bear not buying gifts for the two children.

“I decorated with lights and a tree because I do have other children and we have to have some slight normalcy,” Lindsey Hoggle told the news source. “I have to be optimistic.”

Police have shifted the Hoggle case to a homicide investigation, according to a previous Patch story, but Turner believes the children are still alive.

Donations to the Hoggle fund can be made at the Find Sarah Find Jacob website or by visiting the GoFundMe page set up by Lindsey Hoggle. As of Friday afternoon, the GoFundMe account has $100.

The family says volunteers will also set up at the Chick-fil-A parking lot in Germantown on Dec. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to receive donations, according to Montgomery Community Media.

Timeline of Events

On Sept. 7, Catherine Hoggle borrowed her father’s gray 2012 Nissan Rogue SUV and said she was picking up pizza for Jacob. She returned three hours later without the boy or pizza and told her parents she had left Jacob at a playmate’s house.

On Sept. 8, Hoggle left home with Sarah and told Turner she was taking the child to a day-care center. That afternoon when Turner asked about the children’s whereabouts, Hoggle would not tell him where the children were. Both Hoggle and Turner set off for the police station, but stopped at a Chick-Fil-A near the Germantown Transit Center where Hoggle left the restaurant without Turner noticing and disappeared. On Sept. 12, Hoggle was found and arrested in Germantown.

On Nov. 6, it was revealed in court Hoggle allegedly told her mother she could take the police to where the children are. Hoggle’s lawyer said she did not want to go, and Judge Eugene Wolfe refused to sign an emergency order for her to leave Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center.

On Nov. 17, a psychiatric evaluation of Catherine Hoggle was submitted by Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, finding her not competent to stand trial.

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>>Photo screenshot from Find Sarah Find Jacob GoFundMe page.

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