Coombs said the girl's mother is not a suspect despite comments she made to reporters.
"They're treating me like that -- the interrogations and the way I've been spoken to," Jerice Hunter, Jahessy's mother, said Monday in an interview with the AP. "(They're) very disrespectful."
Coombs said police have treated Hunter no differently than any other mother of a missing child. They conducted an initial interview as well as follow-ups because "people remember things, details, as time goes by."
He said Hunter might believe she's a suspect because "emotions are speaking."
Coombs said Hunter was cooperative with police, and that investigators were focusing their efforts on poring over details from their interviews with family and neighbors, and going over other aspects of the investigation in an effort to find new leads.
Coombs stressed that police still do not know what happened.