HALEIGH CUMMINGS - 5 yo - Satsuma FL - The Beginning

cindmo wrote:Not to be totally crude, but the couch may not have been bouncing because Misty was on it with 'the black man'. It seems that Misty may not have even been home. I read that the cops have talked to 'white boy Greg' and he has not been cleared.

I was only speculating about the reason for the couch bouncing, I can not think of any other reason as to why it would be moving or bouncing, that's why I don't believe this particular statement to be true. I have also read that "White Boy Greg" has been cleared, but I do not know if that source is entirely true. I am not sticking up for Misty at all, I find her somewhat suspicous, but I'm trying to look at things from all angles.

Haleigh's Parents Continue to Battle Each Other via Lawyers


Posted By: Dave Wax Created: 3/27/2009 3:15:23 PM Updated: 3/27/2009 6:47:34 PM

SATSUMA, FL -- Ronald Cummings' defense team continues to fight back against Crystal Sheffield as the search for their missing 5-year-old daughter Haleigh continues.

Yesterday, the lawyers from Kimball & Snider, P.A., fought back against Sheffield's allegations of child abuse.

Today, the legal team is refuting statements attributed to Ronald Cummings, Jr., Haleigh's younger brother.

Citing an interview with Crystal and Junior conducted in early March by Craig Rivera, the lawyers say "shabby journalism" is what led to reports of 'Junior' saying a black man came into the house the night Haleigh disappeared.

They say the statements were made by the young boy while he was in his mother's arms, and that she coaxed his answers by putting them in her questions, and that the boy's response was "mystification and/or passive agreement" to what he was being asked.

Specifically, the lawyers say terms used by the 4-year-old such as "squeaking shoes" and "dressed in black" are not normal language for a child of that age.

Kimball & Snider also say that they have heard speculation that Crystal Sheffield received "a substantial amount of money" from Geraldo at Large, the show for which Craig Rivera conducted the interview. They add that they do not know any of that to be fact.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/amberalerts/news-article.aspx?storyid=134771&catid=295

Haleigh Cummings Case: Gramma Neves Snakes and Hogpens
Friday 27 March 2009 3:06 pm

Satsuma, FL– Did Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings Gram try to set up William “Cobra” Staubs by leading him into a remote area of the woods about a mile from her son Ron Cummings home? Teresa Neves, is the grandmother of Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings, missing from her Satsuma home since February 10, 2009.
In the most bizarre video footage yet, captured by artharris.com, Teresa Neves appears to brazenly lead Cobra and his team into a backwoods area resmebling a scene out of deliverance.
Ms. Neves was sobbing when she called Cobra Staubs on his cell phone from her red pickup truck and asked him to meet her at the Citgo Sation on 17. She told him she had been by herself searching out there for the past 4 hours.

..”I was just walking and I got lost.. there was a trailer and it sounded like a squeaking door from deep in the woods..”

Cobra and his son Matthew, attempted to locate the owner of the trailer by knocking on the open door and calling out “Investigations Here, Anyone home?”
As they began wondering into the woods looking for clues, they abruptly lost Neves and could not locate her. Deep within the woods they had never been in, Staubs gets a call on his cell. It’s Neves.

..” Where you at.. You on the Road? You ran into a six foot Moccasin..? Who did you all up and leave us out in the woods, was this part of the plan?

As Cobra and son headed towards the road, they ran into a former marine who was local. He stated that what Neves may have thought was underground prisons was his innocent hog pens.
It appeared that Ms. Neves, who works as a dispatcher for the Sheriff’s Office was wearing flip flops when she met up with Cobra and would not be appropriate or footwear one would be sporting to go trouncing through the brush and soggy ground for 4 hours. Cobra thinks she set him up. For what purpose, remains to be seen.
It was later discovered that the area had been searched three times previously with 168 officers, a fact that Ms. Neves would have been aware of.
http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/03/27/haleigh-cummings-case-gramma-neves-snakes-and-hogpens/

Van Taken Into Evidence

March 19, 2009 by: Express
SATSUMA, Fla. - Sitting in the driveway of Misty Cummings former home is a van driven by her sister in law. The light blue vehicle doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary, but it was something investigators thought important enough to impound and analyze at their crime lab for weeks.
The woman who drives that van is Misty Cummings sister-in-law Chelsea. Misty was the last person to see 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings the night she was taken. Croslin says the family got the van back just before the weekend.
“They put a lot of tape on it, and there was a lot of white powder on the windows, I guess that’s just to check things,” Misty said. “We all started thinking about what could have happened that night. Irealized the van was in a different spot,” she added.
Misty said the night Haleigh disappeared, a family member was staying with them. Around 4 a.m., Misty called the family member to tell them Haleigh was missing. They went outside to the van to drive to Haleigh’s home and Misty said she immediately noticed the van was not in the same spot she left it.
“I know I don’t park like that, and I was the last to drive the van,” Misty said.
After a few hours, there was another sign that the van had been tampered with.
“The day Haleigh went missing, everyone was looking for her. She [Misty] called me later that night and said Chelsea, please tell me you’re the one who put the scratch in my van. I started crying and told her there’s no way I put the scratch in her van,” a family member said.
A scratch leading from just behind the driver’s side door handle to the back tire is very visible. Misty said that scratch was not there the last time she drove it.
The scratch runs all the way down the van.
All police would say about the van being impounded is that it was taken to the FDLE’s crime lab in Jacksonville, was analyzed and later released. They would not comment on any specifics of what was searched, or if anything was found in the van.
Misty believes the only explanation is that at some point during the night Haleigh was taken, the family member staying with her took the van. Police say they have tracked that man down and questioned him. They also say he has not been ruled out as a suspect.
“I’m not accusing anybody. It’s just me being a mom and believing what I believe and piecing things together, I almost feel like might know who it is,” Misty said.
http://www.cayleedaily.com/2009/03/19/van-taken-into-evidence/

Haleigh Cummings Case: Gramma Neves Snakes and Hogpens

Posted by Blink Friday 27 March 2009 3:06 pm

Satsuma, FL– Did Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings Gram try to set up William “Cobra” Staubs by leading him into a remote area of the woods about a mile from her son Ron Cummings home? Teresa Neves, is the grandmother of Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings, missing from her Satsuma home since February 10, 2009

In the most bizarre video footage yet, captured by artharris.com, Teresa Neves appears to brazenly lead Cobra and his team into a backwoods area resmebling a scene out of deliverance.



Ms. Neves was sobbing when she called Cobra Staubs on his cell phone from her red pickup truck and asked him to meet her at the Citgo Sation on 17. She told him she had been by herself searching out there for the past 4 hours.

..”I was just walking and I got lost.. there was a trailer and it sounded like a squeaking door from deep in the woods..”

Cobra and his son Matthew, attempted to locate the owner of the trailer by knocking on the open door and calling out “Investigations Here, Anyone home?”

As they began wondering into the woods looking for clues, they abruptly lost Neves and could not locate her. Deep within the woods they had never been in, Staubs gets a call on his cell. It’s Neves.

..” Where you at.. You on the Road? You ran into a six
foot Moccasin..? Who did you all up and leave us out in the woods, was
this part of the plan?

As Cobra and son headed towards the road, they ran into a former marine who was local. He stated that what Neves may have thought was underground prisons was his innocent hog pens.

It appeared that Ms. Neves, who works as a dispatcher for the Sheriff’s Office was wearing flip flops when she met up with Cobra and would not be appropriate or footwear one would be sporting to go trouncing through the brush and soggy ground for 4 hours. Cobra thinks she set him up. For what purpose, remains to be seen.

It was later discovered that the area had been searched three times previously with 168 officers, a fact that Ms. Neves would have been aware of.

http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/03/27/haleigh-cummings-case-gramma-neves-snakes-and-hogpens/

Haleigh’s Mother Coaxed Answers From 4yr Old Son

March 30, 2009 by: Express



SATSUMA, FL — Ronald Cummings’ defense team continues to fight back against Crystal Sheffield as the search for their missing 5-year-old daughter Haleigh continues.

Yesterday, the lawyers from Kimball & Snider, P.A., fought back against Sheffield’s allegations of child abuse.

Today, the legal team is refuting statements attributed to Ronald Cummings, Jr., Haleigh’s younger brother.

Citing an interview with Crystal and Junior conducted in early March by Craig Rivera, the lawyers say “shabby journalism” is what led to reports of ‘Junior’ saying a black man came into the house the night Haleigh disappeared.

They say the statements were made by the young boy while he was in his mother’s arms, and that she coaxed his answers by putting them in her questions, and that the boy’s response was “mystification and/or passive agreement” to what he was being asked.

Specifically, the lawyers say terms used by the 4-year-old such as “squeaking shoes” and “dressed in black” are not normal language for a child of that age.

Kimball & Snider also say that they have heard speculation that Crystal Sheffield received “a substantial amount of money” from Geraldo at Large, the show for which Craig Rivera conducted the interview. They add that they do not know any of that to be fact.

First Coast News. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/amberalerts/news-article.aspx?storyid=134771&catid=295

http://www.cayleedaily.com/2009/03/30/haleighs-mother-coaxed-answers-from-4yr-old-son/

Haleigh Cummings mom in
hospital


Crystal Sheffield suffers a seizure
while driving



Last Edited: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 5:03 PM EDT
Created On: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 5:01 PM EDT

• By MATT SAFFER | FOX 30 Jacksonville
  

SATSUMA, Fla. --- - It may have been dumb luck that Crystal Sheffield’s father was driving along State Road 20 in Palatka early Monday afternoon. He says he spotted his daughter’s white SUV on the side of the road with a crowd of people around it. When he got out, he says he ran up to the vehicle and saw his daughter in the middle of a seizure.
Family friends tell us early Monday morning, Crystal called volunteers at the Haleigh Bug Foundation to tell them she was going to a local phone store to buy a landline for the foundation. Friends tell us she stopped at a local Burger King for lunch, then while driving along State Road 20, suffered a seizure and bumped the rear bumper of the vehicle in front of her.
Sheffield was taken by ambulance to the Putnam Community Medical Center along with her 11 month old daughter. Sheffield was admitted, hooked up to oxygen, and monitored. Her daughter was looked after, and was immediately released suffering no injuries.
Friends tell us both Crystal and her daughter were wearing seatbelts. We’re told the 11 month old was strapped into a child seat. The only visible damage on the outside of Sheffield’s SUV was a slight dent in the front bumper. Witnesses say the other car suffered no damage.
Sheffield’s family says this is the second seizure Crystal has ever gone through. They tell us she suffered her first two days before Haleigh was taken. Family says she did go to the doctor then, but hasn’t been able to do any follow-up visits since her daughter’s disappearance.
Sheffield is expected to be okay and should be released from the hospital after minimal supervision. Her father was by her side the entire time she was in the hospital. Her mother was stuck at a different hospital in Jacksonville sitting with another family member, but was in constant contact by phone with her daughter




http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/033009haleighs_mom_seizure

SATSUMA, FL -- Almost two months after 5-year-old
Haleigh Cummings disappeared, Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy still
has staff dedicated to the case.
However, Hardy said the number of daily tips coming
in about the case has decreased. He expected that to happen, but he
also called that disappointing.
Thursday, Hardy spoke to First Coast News about the investigation.
He said while tips have declined, his office still receives information.
"It's just going to take that one lead or tip to break this case," Hardy said.
Hardy also said 17-year-old Misty Croslin Cummings is
still the key to the investigation because she was the last person who
saw Haleigh on February 9.
Misty was Haleigh's father's girlfriend. They got married about a month after Haleigh disappeared.
Misty has told reporters she was at home the entire
night and put Haleigh and Haleigh's little brother to bed in their
Satsuma home. She said she went to bed as well in the same room, woke
up around 3 a.m. and noticed Haleigh was gone.
Hardy said there are still inconsistencies in Misty's story about that night.[/size]
He said, "We've spent over 30 hours interviewing
Misty and we've had some of the brightest law enforcement minds in the
world interview her, and we can't seem to bridge that gap."[/size]
Haleigh's mother's attorney, Kim Picazio, told First
Coast News Thursday she and her staff have talked to eyewitnesses who
saw Misty partying the night Haleigh disappeared.[/size]
"I have heard eyewitness accounts that she was not
there, eyewitness accounts from different people," Picazio told First
Coast News. "We've tried to ferret out those who may have had a grudge
or reason to lie to us. We're left with a handful of people who have no
reason to lie, in my opinion. They have stated that Misty was out that
night."[/size]
Sheriff Hardy said, "It goes back to the inconsistencies with Misty's stories."[/size]
However, Hardy said he and his investigators cannot
prove Misty was not at the house. He said his investigators have not
spoken to anyone who saw Misty outside the home the night Haleigh
disappeared.
While the investigators have received information
from Picazio, Lt. Johnny Greenwood with the Putnam County Sheriff's
Office said investigators have not received any names of individuals
who saw Misty outside the home February 9th.
Picazio said she is working on providing the sheriff's office that kind of information.
Hardy said there have been distractions in the media
lately surrounding Haleigh Cummings. Haleigh's father married Misty
Croslin and there's been allegations of child abuse at the hands of
Haleigh's father.
Hardy said, "All the civil stuff going on around us is distracting, but it's not taking us away from our investigation."

Exclusive: White Boy Greg and Misty Cummings!



Exclusive: White Boy Greg’s first interview, talks Misty to Art Harris

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) artharris.com, all rights reserved SATSUMA, Fla.–He’s been called the mystery man who holds the key to unlocking the secrets of Misty (then Croslin), and the conflicting timelines she’s given in the days and hours before Haleigh Cummings, age 5, went missing from the trailer where the 17 year old babysitter claims they were sleeping. Then, amid rumors about Misty and her mystery man, she married Haleigh’s father, Ronald, 26–and the couple stopped talking publicly.

His name is Gregory Page, 28, aka White Boy Greg, an aspiring, graphic designer and single father of two with big time dreams who has been plagued by drug arrests and stints in the county jail for possession.

So far, he’s kept his own counsel, aghast at talk show hosts begging him to call and jack up ratings, rants he blames for sending his mother to the ER with a stroke, and his five year old into a tantrum of tears, as his mug shot flashes across the TV screen in Palatka, Florida.

He’s spoken in depth to police about his time with Misty, investigators confirm, his mother, and an outside private eye and bounty hunter named William Staubs, who goes by the street name, Cobra.

“I’m light-complected, had a white father and my mother is black, so they call me ‘White Boy’ on the street,” Page tells me in his first media interview that can be heard exclusively on artharris.com. In that interview, Page tells me he did have a “fling” with Misty the weekend before she reported Haleigh missing, but was not with her that Monday night.

“Only a fool would be at another man’s house, laying up with his girlfriend,” he tells me on in a phone call he agreed to let me tape. “It was a brief little fling, not like no love or anything, no relationship, (just) like ‘how ya doin.’”

“I was with the girl that weekend,” he says, describing a three day party of sex, cocaine, pot and pills. Only in the last two weeks did he learn about his public notoriety with Misty, “when a neighbor read your website and told my mother…I was startled….”

But Page adamantly denies he’s the mysterious “black man in black” with “squeaky” shoes who Haleigh’s, baby brother, Junior, age 4, reportedly told his mother, great grandmother, and police he’d seen in the trailer that night. According to the reports, Junior said the man had made the couch “bounce” and took his sister.

Page believes he was scapegoated over his drug arrests to divert attention from Misty and Ronald Cummings, where he believes the truth lies. Shortly after Haleigh vanished, Page says he sat down with Putnam County Detective John Merchant, the lead investigator, laid out the details, took a polygraph and was told he passed.

Sources close to the case confirm he’s not a suspect, and that Misty also told police they’d been together.

Says Page: “I wish I could tell you what happened. I’ve got two kids the same age (as Haleigh and Ronald, Jr.), but I don’t know. I feel real bad for the family.” And William Staubs, aka Cobra, says he’s talked to Page for hours, checked out his story, and is convinced he’s telling the truth about that weekend and any Haleigh connection.

Playing cupid that weekend: a Kristina Prevatt, 18, who everyone calls “Nay Nay.” She says she introduced Misty to Page. Soon everyone was eager to get the party started, say both Page and Prevatt, and soon everyone was high, including Misty.

“Cocaine?” I ask Page.

“Yeah, he says, “and pills, all kind of shit.”

“What kind of pills?”

“Roxies, and all that,” says Page.

“What are ‘roxies?’” I ask.

“It’s a breakthrough for Oxycontin,” Page explained. “I’m not going to lie to you, I do a little drugs, but I’m going to straighten up.”

After the news broke about Misty as the witness at the center of the missing child, Page’s mother, Lyn, tells me, “I asked (Greg), ‘Did you go to bed with that girl?’ And he said, he had, three times.’”

Page believes some may have used Junior’s purported “black man in black” siting to hype his drug history and divert attention from Misty and Ronald Cummings, where he believes the truth lies. (Remember cousin Joe in Tennessee, the Cummings’ family prime suspect who has dropped off police radar?) Shortly after Haleigh vanished, Page says he sat down with Putnam County Detective John Merchant, the lead investigator, laid out the details, took a polygraph and was told he passed.

Sources close to the case confirm he’s not a suspect, and that Misty also told police they’d been together. Says Page: “I wish I could tell you what happened. I’ve got two kids the same age (as Haleigh and Ronald, Jr.), but I don’t know. I feel real bad for the family.”

Their fated encounter began, as Prevatt tells artharris.com in an exclusive interview, when she took a frantic call from a distraught Misty who reported she’d just been in a terrible fight with Ronald.

He’d exploded in rage when she informed him she was pregnant, says Nay Nay, who believes it was a ruse to pressure him.

“She showed me the pregnancy tests,” says Prevatt, “it was positive, but I think it was her sister’s. She was in love with Ronald and wanted him to marry her. She said she can’t leave him because she said he gives her what she wants.”

If Cummings did believe her, he wasn’t buying paternity.

“She said he kept calling her a ‘whore, that it wasn’t his baby, a ‘n— lover’ because she hangs out with me, and my baby Daddy is black….He dropped her off at her brother’s house, but kept her clothes.

She ran down the road and called me and I picked her up.”
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So it began, the wild weekend. But as Page’s mother clarifies and an astute reader confirms with Prevatt’s traffic tickets in a post, the teenagers were hanging out at least as early as Feb. 3, when Prevatt says they started cruising in her blue Lincoln, which clipped a truck at an intersection; Nay Nay kept driving.

No one was hurt but Prevatt confirms she left the scene; the other driver called 911 and cops pulled her over.

By fate or coincidence, they wrote her ticket outside the house of Greg Page’s mother, Lyn, an Army reserve veteran and home health care worker who cares for his two toddlers and four other children.

It was hot, so Lyn invited Nay Nay, Misty and another friend inside, made small talk, asked if they knew her son, Greg, and whipped out family photos of the strapping, six footer with light skin.

“I’ve GOT to meet him,” gushed Misty. ‘I want to meet him.”

“She seemed very nice, very polite,” says Lyn in an exclusive interview with artharris.com and asked that her last name not be used. Later that week, Wednesday or Thursday before Haleigh vanished, she recalls seeing her son riding around with the girls–Misty, Nay Nay and Amber Brooks, a Ronald Cummings “ex” he dated before Haleigh’s mother, Crystal Sheffield and who has custody of their son.

“Greg is a good looking young man,” says Page’s mother, “the girls like him.”

Page says he’d never met Misty until that Thursday, when she got a ride from Prevatt, an old Misty acquaintance who knew Ronald from Amber Brooks days.

Greg said he didn’t know Ronald Cummings. “Me and Misty and Nay Nay were hanging out, doing drugs and partying, and she came back the next day and we hanged out.”

That weekend, Page says he cruised with the girls between Palatka and St. Augustine, where Amber Brooks tells artharris.com she had words with Misty for purportedly stealing her man and “trying to take my child.” They were pulled apart before it came to blows, says Prevatt.

Misty was trying to forget Ronald, says Prevatt. “Smoking weed, drinking, (taking) downers, roxies, snorting cocaine,” says Prevatt.

“She’d turned her phone off and acted like she wasn’t even thinking of Ronald after she hooked up with Greg.”

But she couldn’t shake him. “She told me she loved him because he gave her what she wanted, and she wanted a baby.”

Several calls to Ronald’s family and to Misty’s were not returned.

But I recall dinner with Cummings about ten days ago, when Cobra pressed him over Misty cancelling a crime scene walk-through she’d promised to do, clear things up. Bringing up White Boy Greg, Cobra pushed a button; Ronald was still furious, if philosophical, about Misty hooking up with him. “So what if she (slept with)” a (black man), he said, using the racial epithet. “I still love her and one of my best friends is black.”

In our interview, Page says he last saw Misty about 4 a.m. Sunday, Feb, 8, and learned later she was going to visit her father, laid up in the hospital from a car accident, busted leg. He says Misty called him, “said she wanted to hook up later.” But later never came. He says he called, but she never called back, and he didn’t reach out after Haleigh turned up missing. “I didn’t need the heat,” he says.

Meanwhile, Misty was apparently ambivalent about her breakup with Ronald, couldn’t shake his spell. “She told me she loved him because he gave her what she wanted, and she wanted a baby,” Prevatt told me.

By Sunday, the party was winding down. \“She said she wasn’t going back to Ronald, and said for me to drop her off at her brother’s house,” recalls Prevatt, “that she had to take care of the kids,” unclear if she meant her nephews or Haleigh and Junior. “I asked her, ‘You going to Ronald’s? But she didn’t answer,
she was over in a corner talking quietly to him on the phone. They both kept talking and hanging up.”

Then Misty made a personal request. “She asked me if I had a condom,” says Prevatt. “She said Ronald asked her to bring one, but I didn’t have any.”

She’s not sure where Misty spent the night Sunday, and Monday morning, Haleigh was supposed to take the school bus. Often, Misty would walk the kids to the bus, sometimes in her pajamas. That’s what three sets of parents with children on the bus tell me. Only on Monday morning, Jerry Santos, a neighbor at the bus stop with his children tells me Ronald raced by in his purple car with tinted windows, came inches away from hitting a pickup truck–and mowing him and kids down in the loading area. Inside, Santos could make out Haleigh. “My daughter was still scared that afternoon about how close he came, she couldn’t stop talking about it,” says Santos.

Other parents tell me Haleigh did not ride the bus that morning, raising questions about whether Misty spent the night elsewhere; it looked like Ronald had to scramble to get Haleigh to school on time, turning him into a speed demon, perhaps concerned another tardy would put him in hot water with Haleigh’s school and the Department of Family Services.

But Haleigh did ride the bus home. Ronald has said he picked her up and took her home before he went to work, but two sets of parents tell me they saw Misty pull up in the blue van, and yell at the children to hurry as they piled in.

“It all comes back to Misty,” Cobra tells me, “and her timeline. No one knows what she was doing after she visited her Dad at the hospital Monday. Or whether she was even home that night (Monday). So many conflicts in her stories. She said she put blankets in the washing machine at 8 p.m. so why did police note the washing machine was running hours later? She said she went to the bathroom and called Ronald when she couldn’t find Haleigh, but Ronald was standing outside, supposedly just home from work.”

Then, early Feb. 10, Haleigh turned up missing and Misty didn’t answer her phone for several days, says her friend, Prevatt. Finally, she picked up. “She said, the FBI had had her phone. She said she couldn’t talk because the phones were tapped and hung up.”

That was the last time they spoke, she says.

“What do I think happened?” asks Prevatt. “I just know when she’s with the kids, I can’t hang out with her because Haleigh would tell Ronald Nay Nay was there and he’d get mad. I used to hang out when my friend, Amber, was with him, but not since Misty moved in. Ronald doesn’t like me, and to Misty, obviously Ronald is more important.”

Prevatt says Misty can be two-faced, “pretending she’s a friend, but now she won’t talk to me. Detectives told me she said I was a ‘lying caseyanthony.’ They wanted to know if I was there (at the trailer) that night or if she told me anything, but I wasn’t there and I don’t know what happened. I took a lie detector test and they told me I passed.

“Haleigh was cute, just like any other little kid. Misty said she felt like their Mom, but she wanted her own baby from Ronald…
“It’s all fucked up.”

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By ELYSA BATISTA (Contact)

Originally published 1:39 p.m., Saturday, April 4, 2009
Updated 1:39 p.m., Saturday, April 4, 2009

IMMOKALEE —
For Marie Neida, the horror of her son going missing continues to dominate every facet of her life.

“I pray to God for my son to come back home,” Neida said Friday.

It’s been about three months since 6-year-old Adji Desir disappeared
from outside his grandmother’s house at Farm Workers Village in
Immokalee.

Since then, Neida and her family members have tried to continue with
their daily lives, while passing out fliers with her son’s information
and keeping in touch with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office for
updates on the case.

“My family is so-so,” Neida, 36, said in a sad voice. “I’m so-so.”

The situation has taken an emotional and psychological toll on the
family, but especially on Neida and Adji’s grandmother, Jesula Thebaud,
55, said Neida’s husband, Antal Elant, 42.

“They don’t sleep at night,” Elant said. “Nobody sleeps.”

Elant said the family prays daily for the safe return of Adji.

“We pray to God for Adji every night,” Elant said. “Everybody wants Adji to come back home.”

As for the outpouring of support from community members, Elant and Neida said they are grateful for everyone’s efforts.

Elant said that above all else, people should keep looking for his stepson.

“I don’t want anyone to give up,” Elant said. “We need help very much.”

Although 12 weeks have gone by, hope that the mentally disabled boy could be found remains in the community.

“It’s good to know that the fliers are still out there and that
people are still looking for him,” said Sgt. Ken Becker with the
Collier County Sheriff’s Office Special Crimes Bureau.

Even three months later, local and statewide businesses have kept the missing-child fliers with Adji’s information posted.

“I am glad to see that,” Becker said.

Becker admitted that after the initial rush of tips back in January, the flow of information has slowed down a bit.

However, that doesn’t mean that the multi-agency task force has
stopped working the case. The task force is headed by the Collier
County Sheriff’s Office and includes agents from the FBI and Florida
Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

“Over the last 12 weeks, we have done a number of follow-up investigations,” Becker said.

The department received between 400 and 500 tips related to the disappearance of the developmentally disabled 6-year-old.

And it’s community tipsters that could ultimately make the difference, he said.

“A case like this is going to depend on somebody that has seen
something or has information that will help us find Adji,” Becker said.
“If you’ve got any information, no matter how small, contact us so we
can follow up. It could be a key component to solve this case.”

He added that on a case like Adji’s, because time has passed, the tips aren’t concentrated in Collier County anymore.

That’s where help from the FBI, FDLE and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children comes in, Becker said.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children president Ernie Allen agreed.

“Time dramatically expands the boundaries,” Allen said.

It’s one of the reasons the center has been adamant about getting Adji’s story to national media, he said.

“We’re trying to use media to keep awareness big,” Allen said. “So
we can generate the new leads we need to break this case loose.”

He said Adji’s information also had been sent to law enforcement agencies around the world.

“Obviously the primary focus initially was the rapid response, the search and rescue,” Allen said.

At this point, Allen said the investigation had changed and become a more traditional criminal investigation.

“Now our focus is to keep the level of awareness of Adji as high as
possible, so we can generate leads,” Allen said. “Somebody out there
knows what happened to Adji.”

Allen said one of the key messages that the group wants to send is
that, just because it has been three months, it doesn’t mean the world
can forget.

“Adji is still out there,” Allen said.

As for whoever has her son, Neida has a simple request — take care of Adji and return him safely home.

“I want my son back,” she said. “If someone sees Adji, call the police right away.”

A $23,500 Crime Stoppers reward, a $10,000 FBI reward and $5,500
community-collected reward are being offered for information leading to
the whereabouts of Adji.

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Anyone with information about Adji’s whereabouts can call the
Collier County Sheriff’s Office at (239) 793-9300, or if you wish to
remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).

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For more information about the search for Adji Desir visit the
Collier County Sheriff’s Web site at www.colliersheriff.org or visit
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Web site at
www.missingkids.com.

Teresa(aka Mom-in-Indiana wrote:thanks for posting this Mom...this just pisses me off... If I was the grandmother, aunt or any relation to these kids...I would go straight to the police and ask them to confirm this story to me, as much as they could...then I would go straight to children Services and file for custody of the kids. I can not believe Rondald, who says he loves his kids, which I am sure he does...would allow Misty in his home taking care of these kids...IMO that says alot about him...what his priorities are...

I have a friend that when he and his wife divorced, he married a chick with 2 much older kids so that she could be the stand in mom for his 2. their mom on meth and crack lost custody.

I have always thought that the only reason he likes the young girls is so he can control them and they are easier to get. He loves having his kids for notariaty of it (SP), you know look at me I have custody my KIDS! He is using them to get back at their mom and having Misty get back at her as well. JMHO