HALEIGH CUMMINGS - 5 yo - Satsuma FL - The Beginning

I wonder why Haleigh didn't live with her mom? That is unusual. And why did family services investigate them?

I swear, the dad has that Susan Smith look on his face.

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I swear, the dad has that Susan Smith look on his face.

I pray that is not the case...we just have way too much of this....I wonder if some times people don't try to overdo it because of what they have heard from previous stories of parents not acting sincere or upset enough...I hope that is the case here.

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I swear, the dad has that Susan Smith look on his face.

I pray that is not the case...we just have way too much of this....I wonder if some times people don't try to overdo it because of what they have heard from previous stories of parents not acting sincere or upset enough...I hope that is the case here.

News Conference Held For Missing Girl, Haleigh Cumming

http://www.wesh.com/video/18692416/index.html

i'm just catching up with this story and it seems as if the father is 25 y/o with a 17 y/o g/f....hmmmm...

I'm watching him on NG....maybe KC's case has made me extremely critical...but something seems out of sorts...he's either highly medicated, in shock or something...

Father said earlier that g/f put kids to bed at 8 p.m. (like she always does)...but the 1st reports say dad put Haleigh to bed at 10??? Am I mistaken?

The Dad says they are renting - apparently rather recently.

I hope LE investigates the landlord and his/her family to see who may have had access to keys.

Also they hopefully are checking any/all previous renters and their families to see about who had access in case the landlord never bothered to re-key the property.

Susmihara wrote:Father said earlier that g/f put kids to bed at 8 p.m. (like she always does)...but the 1st reports say dad put Haleigh to bed at 10??? Am I mistaken?

Hi Sus! From what I gathered watching NG, and it sounds like she put the kids to bed at 8:00 and then she went to bed later, I believe 10:30 or 11:00, and that was the last time she saw Haleigh in bed.

This is just so sad. I hope the police and searchers find this little girl. This reminds me of the Jessica Lunsford abduction. That one still haunts me as my hubby and I were in Crystal River for a few days of "snow" escape and Manatee observing on the same weekend she went missing.

About the father of this child...Ronald Cummings....I think he's sincere. I think some people think he comes off as strange, but I personally just think it's because of his age and he's scared and also, he seems kind of "back-woodsy" and shy kind of kid to me...not "cityized" like Casey Anthony. JMO. Now, the girlfriend I'm not too sure of. Of course once the police discovered she was only 17, they wisked her off to her family to be out of the limelight, so we can't get too much info about or from her. I tried to listen carefully and read about all the details, and I'm still a little confused about a few things. 1.) All 3 of them (her and the 2 kids) were asleep in one (1) bed, right? 2.) Did she discover Haleigh missing when she woke up, but BEFORE she went to use the bathroom? or 3.) Did she just not notice that Haleigh wasn't in the bed till she got back from the bathroom? 4.) Was it a solid back door that was shut and locked? Or, was it just a screen-type door that was shut and locked? I was confused about that, as I heard mention something about a screen door in one of the statements, either from LE or Ronald himself. Was it warm in Florida the night of the abduction? Could the g/f have just had the screen door shut and locked, or was it a regular hard solid door?

I know when I wake up suddenly because I need to go potty, I don't pay too much attention to whose in the bed...the dog, the dh, etc, but by the time I wander back to bed, I'm more awake and would notice something or someone missing in bed. It seems strange to me that an abductor could just tippy-toe into their bedroom and snatch a 5 year child without waking the girlfriend up though. I've tried to imagine their sleeping positions. If the g/f was on one side of the bed rolled over facing AWAY from the two kids, maybe the little boy in the middle and Haleigh on the other side of the bed, then maybe, just maybe, an abductor could pull that off quietly and without waking anyone else. Still....seems strange.

TiaMaria wrote:The Dad says they are renting - apparently rather recently.

I hope LE investigates the landlord and his/her family to see who may have had access to keys.

Also they hopefully are checking any/all previous renters and their families to see about who had access in case the landlord never bothered to re-key the property.

My thoughts exactally about the landlord or his previous renters even. Who knows who could've been living there before. Since they hadn't lived there long, that's where my logical senses tell me check. There seems to be a lot of sex offenders living in the area, and it's kind of a remote area, which is where predators seem to like to live. We have a rental apartment in our 2-family house (upstairs) and we always re-key their doors after vacating. Usually our renters are there 2-3 years though, so haven't had any problems.

I know I'm talking to myself here, but just writing my thoughts, as I'm up early again...couldn't sleep.

If I'm not mistaken, the biological mother lives in Georgia? Someone on another blog from the nearby online newspaper (firstcoastnews.com) said she lives within an hour or so drive from Ronald and his g/f. There's something amiss with her. Why wasn't Haleigh living with the biological mother anyway? She seems a little strange to me, like maybe a drug addict or something. Also, whose son is the 4 year old? In one report, I heard he was 2 years old, then on NG last night they said he was 4. Is the woman in Georgia his mother too? I'm confused about who's who in whoville here. I highly doubt the 4 year old belongs to the 17 year old girlfriend.