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I find Crystal & Marie's recent iv quite curious. To begin with, neither take the opportunity to plead for Haleigh's safe return, rather they just blame Ron & Misty. Unless they are 100% certain Ron & Misty are responsible (and they certainly don't say that), why would they not take the opportunity, when speaking to the press, to plead for her safe return (as Ron always does). Why do they always waste these opportunities by trashing Ron?
And I also find it very odd that Marie says if the families could make peace she thinks it would help find Haleigh, then goes on to bash Ron & Misty and puts the blame on them for Haleigh being missing.
“I feel like that maybe if the families could speak with each other and put differences aside that maybe it would help the case, but there is too much going on down there and it is being pushed our way to blame us for what happened in Putnam County,” Griffis said from her home outside Sanderson where Sheffield also lives.
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“I don’t know what, I don’t know how but they were the last people to see my granddaughter,” Griffis said. “They’re the last two people to see her. They’re accountable for her whereabouts.”
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Sheffield, 24, is more blunt about Cummings.
“I really do feel like he is covering for Misty and she is covering for him,” she said.
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/me...aleighs_family_remains_divided_6_months_later
Why can't these people stop bashing Ron and focus on finding Haleigh????....hmmmmm.
Also, does anyone else find it odd that a woman who refused to pay child support for her own children and had a stranger bail her out of it, is now running a campaign to make sure other people's kids have school supplies? Very very weird.
Haleigh's family remains divided 6 months later
Grandmother wants peace but sees too many issues
Six months into the unsolved disappearance of Haleigh Cummings, those who deeply love her believe she is still alive.
- By Dana Treen
- Story updated at 7:35 AM on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009
Its about the only thing the two families closest to the investigation of her disappearance agree on.
With Monday marking the six-month anniversary of her case and next weeks arrival of her sixth birthday, her divided family has even scheduled separate events in Putnam County.
It doesnt matter what anybody says, we just want the safe return of Haleigh, said Annette Sykes, whose grandson Ronald Cummings is Haleighs father. Nothing else matters.
Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, the long-estranged parents of Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother Ronald Jr., see each other only to exchange the boy at a pre-arranged stop in Florahome, about midway between Cummings home in southern Putnam County and Sheffields in western Baker County.
Tension between Cummings, Sheffield and their families has hummed like high-voltage background noise since the beginning of the case.
Sheffields mother, Marie Griffis, said law enforcement authorities have asked the two families not to have contact beyond the exchanges of Ronald Jr.
I feel like that maybe if the families could speak with each other and put differences aside that maybe it would help the case, but there is too much going on down there and it is being pushed our way to blame us for what happened in Putnam County, Griffis said from her home outside Sanderson where Sheffield also lives.
She said her family has been accused of abducting Haleigh and hiding her with family out of state.
She said she has no idea how her granddaughter vanished but said the kindergartner was living with Cummings and his 17-year-old girlfriend when she was reported missing.
I dont know what, I dont know how but they were the last people to see my granddaughter, Griffis said. Theyre the last two people to see her. Theyre accountable for her whereabouts.
Cummings said he and former girlfriend Misty Croslin who he has since married and is now Misty Cummings have been unfairly targeted.
There should have been more attention to Crystals family, he said. I think they should have paid more attention to everyone rather than just me and Misty.
He said questioning should have been broader.
They didnt have the big picture, he said. Why do they not question everybody?
Cummings: It went personal
In recent interviews at Sykes Welaka home where Ronald Cummings, 25, and his wife live, he told the Times-Union the Putnam County Sheriffs Office focus was shortsighted.
Standing outside wearing T-shirts with Haleighs likeness, Ronald and Misty Cummings said they gave dozens of hours of interviews in February and March, including her longest, which she said occurred just before the couple were married.
I think the longest time I was in there was eight hours, she said.
Ronald Cummings said the investigation went in the wrong direction.
They took a child-abduction investigation and made it a personal investigation, he said. Instead of keeping the focus on finding Haleigh, they made the focus on Misty and what she was doing one weekend and what happened six months ago and what happened seven years ago. It was tunnel vision.
Cummings has cut off interviews with investigators.
Besides No I didnt have nothing to do with my child being missing, what do you say? he asked.
Maj. Gary Bowling, director of law enforcement for the department, said detectives would like to interview Cummings again but have been resisted.
The interviews with Misty Cummings have produced different pictures, he said. She was alone with Cummings children the night Haleigh disappeared. She has told authorities she woke up about 3 a.m. and found the 5-year-old missing.
Weve said from day one Mistys story is absolutely filled with inconsistencies, Bowling said.
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/me...aleighs_family_remains_divided_6_months_later
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My opinion on this is that both families are not worthy of children, BUT, that said...
I CANNOT, and I mean I absolutely cannot see the puzzling support for Ronald. Almost obsessive support, and it has become so personal to posters over the last few months, almost like they cannot admit RC is not father material, even hold him up as an honorable man.
Compare to other MP cases we discuss and you WILL NOT see support for others who have a child go missing on their watch. He is not.
And really, I'm not even arguing it.
Just my observation that RC is a match waiting for a gas can.
IMO.
This part I found most interesting:
The Haleighbug Center was closed after Sheffield had medical problems that included seizures. Shirts and posters, donated toys and other items were brought to Baker County where Sheffield lives on family property with her fiance, their toddler daughter and his two children.
I searched all I could down there, she said. My body couldnt take it.
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/me...aleighs_family_remains_divided_6_months_later
I am happy to see Crystal putting out this press release today.
PRNewswire Press Release sent to Southeastern US today.
HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings Missing for Six Months and Birthday School Supply Drive Event Planned
Missing Five Year Old HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings from Satsuma, Florida
GLEN ST. MARY, Fla., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- HaLeigh Cummings disappeared from her home in Satsuma, Florida, approximately 75 miles east of Gainesville, during the early morning hours of February 10, 2009. She is 3' tall and weighs 39 pounds. She has blonde hair and brown eyes. It has now been six months since her disappearance.
HaLeigh's mother Crystal Sheffield continues to search for her daughter and is not giving up her fight.
SOURCE Crystal Sheffield
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayR...STORY=/www/story/08-10-2009/0005074653&EDATE=
That's a good press release, I am glad to see it as well.
I am curious about the part I bolded, has she started searching? In Baker county?
I am happy to see Crystal putting out this press release today.
PRNewswire Press Release sent to Southeastern US today.
HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings Missing for Six Months and Birthday School Supply Drive Event Planned
Missing Five Year Old HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings from Satsuma, Florida
GLEN ST. MARY, Fla., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- HaLeigh Cummings disappeared from her home in Satsuma, Florida, approximately 75 miles east of Gainesville, during the early morning hours of February 10, 2009. She is 3' tall and weighs 39 pounds. She has blonde hair and brown eyes. It has now been six months since her disappearance.
HaLeigh's mother Crystal Sheffield continues to search for her daughter and is not giving up her fight.
SOURCE Crystal Sheffield
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayR...STORY=/www/story/08-10-2009/0005074653&EDATE=
I dunno, she's been pretty nasty in the media. I wouldn't say she takes the high ground, jmo.
Ronald has shown class imo. Did you read yesterday's article Elle? No taking the high road imo