Sources inside the family of a missing 5-year-old Glendale, Ariz. girl say Jhessye Shockley wasn’t in school for a week and a half before she disappeared.

This and other revelations are slowly coming to the surface as Glendale homicide detectives  are now leading the investigation three weeks into the girl’s disappearance. Family members say Jhessye’s mother, Jerice Hunter, told the school Jhessye had ringworm.

Police said Monday the girl’s mother is not a suspect.