WARRENTON, Ga. — Police administered a lie detector test Sunday to the mother of two missing toddlers, the children's father told FOX News.
Authorities temporarily halted the search for a 2-year-old girl and her 3-year-old-brother while state investigators questioned their mother, Lottie Kain.
The kids' dad, Dennis Payne, told FOX News that he didn't believe his fiancée did anything to hurt the children.
Payne said Kain was in the bathroom when she heard something, and when she went out the kids, Jonah and Nicole Kain (search), were gone and the door was open.
Payne also begged anyone who took the children to please give them back.
The children were reported missing Saturday evening after last being seen at their Warren County (search) home, in east Georgia about 100 miles from Atlanta.
The search, which included police, a dog team and a helicopter, was "halted for the moment" Sunday afternoon while agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (search) questioned the children's mother.