The search continued Tuesday for a missing a 5-year-old girl.

On Monday, members of Texas Equusearch headed to Kendleton, southwest of Houston, to check out Alondra Diaz-Garcia’s grandparents’ home.

Police said Diaz-Garcia was abducted by her biological father, Reynaldo Diaz, who does not have custody of her.

The focus of the search was a ten-acre area where Diaz-Garcia’s father was thought to have been as recently as the last few weeks.

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Alondra Diaz-Garcia and Reynaldo Diaz

Searchers had hoped to find a trace of the girl Tuesday, but so far their efforts have been unsuccessful.

The girl was last seen June 1 at a McDonald’s near Houston.

According to the girl’s mother, she and Diaz are divorced and had a custody agreement.

The last time she saw her daughter, she was dropped off for a pre-arranged visit with her father.

She believes her ex-husband may have taken the girl to California or Mexico.

“He is a hot-tempered man. His reactions are very strong. He just did this probably on revenge,” Doroeta Garcia said.

She said he may have quit his job and taken $30,000 out of the bank before disappearing.

Statistics show that more than 200,000 kids are abducted every year by their parents in the U.S, but it’s not a crime under Texas law unless there is a violation of a custody agreement.

“Sometimes it’s a very dangerous situation, and sometimes it’s a situation where the parent may not be abiding by orders and hiding the child, and maybe not being physically harmed but some sort of emotional harm,” Harris Co. Assistant D.A. Jane Waters said.

In the case of Diaz-Garcia, a custody agreement had been in place since the divorce in 2005.

Equusearch volunteers said Tuesday they may return to the general area to continue the search later in the week.