The father is country redneck, the 17-year old girlfriend smokes. What left-leaning reporter could possibly identify with such people?

I am suspicious, though, that the girlfriend cries with her voice, but I don't see any tears in her eyes. I've seen other missing child cases where the lack of real tears was a bad sign. I'm not accusing, just observing.

I've seen the "crying with the voice" thing before. I remember seeing it on 48 Hours Mystery some years ago on a woman who'd killed her husband. She did that sob-talk, but her eyes were totally dry and her face was almost expressionless.

People have been going nuts over the father's cursing. You cry too much, you don't cry enough. You don't look at the camera, you look like you love the camera. It's always some shit.
The father was at work yet is still being attacked.

Here's some tears from the gf, Juan:
http://www.news4jax.com/video/18700882/index.html

His cussing makes him believable to me.
If someone stole my child I would be cussing like that too.
Likewise, Casey Anthony is unbelievable to me.
She says she knows who stole her child, but I've never her say that #@$%!! Zanaida! @!#$! bitch.....
I'd go into an cursing rant every time I heard her name.

The media is loving this life size replica of
the proverbial mouth breather..

I'd be pissed..

Juan points out that the 17-year-old girl smokes. So does Haleigh's father. Juan, would you like to tell us about your "flaws" ?

"Oh!" "You don't have any?" Ha, ha, ha.

Are you suggesting that a smoker might tend to be a child abductor?

What we're hearing, again, is that another child is missing from her home and family. Focus on that alone. I believe that the "smoking" father and the "smoking" girlfriend DID NOT abduct this little girl.

Who knows whether the child even disappeared while her father was at work? Child killers don't usually resort to telling the truth. This whole story is sad, where is her and her little brothers mother? Why is a 17yr old with a 25yr old? Why was this little girl let down like so many before her?

Marion,
She went to school that day.
He picked her up from school that afternoon.
He left to get to work by 3:00 p.m.
He got off work at 3:00 a.m.
He got home at 3:30 and she was gone.
Are you disputing this? The police aren't.
Kid at school? Check. Dad at work? Check.
He passed the polygraph.
The police say he's not a suspect.

It would be really nice if the whole world would just SHUT UP and quit judging them already.

The people who rush to judgement in cases like this are just as vile as someone who would snatch a kid in the first place.

I hope that this family LAWYERS UP FAST because clearly the sharks are circling them, and pretty soon the media will be trying their case on TV. I really pity them now that Nancy Grace has picked up on it, their lives are ruined and the case will be botched by "dead child lovers" like LEONARD PADILLA.

I would just like to say that my heart goes out to this father and mother, I would like to say a few things one being that I feel the father swearing is probably one of the most heart-felt truthfulness that could have came out of a young fathers mouth whose daughter has gone missing. 2. It bothers me whether or not mom lives with Haleigh and jr. she is the mom not the 17 year old, none of us know the whole story behind their break-up,and people should remember that. 3. I think that their are a lot of speculations flying around about the 17 year old girlfriend and from past experience in this type of situation most of us with our gut feeling are right! I just pray this little girl comes home safely to her father and mother.

No, they can't lawyer up. John Walsh and Mark Lunsford would be the first to say just put your head down and take the hits.
Leonard Padilla really is revolting.
And yes, people labeling other people low class and suspect for something as stupid as smoking a cigarette is repugnant.
BTW, Juan wasn't saying he personally believed that, just that that was an issue idiots were harping on.

Everyone has an opinion on this case and here goes mine. Don't ya all think that taking care of two children at 17 is hard. At 17 that girlfriend should be waking up in her own bed and getting ready for school, not having to worry about a 5 year old getting her ready for school and being responsible for the two babies all night while the daddy is out working. Maybe things got to be to much.......maybe her story is true. Who knows, just remember that there are two sides to every story.

Everyone has an opinion on this case and here goes mine. Don't ya all think that taking care of two children at 17 is hard. At 17 that girlfriend should be waking up in her own bed and getting ready for school, not having to worry about a 5 year old getting her ready for school and being responsible for the two babies all night while the daddy is out working. Maybe things got to be to much.......maybe her story is true. Who knows, just remember that there are two sides to every story.

I am not sure about who is involved but I think the Dad isn't. I have heard that the GF was sleeping in the same room then I heard it was the same bed? I don't know why it would be the same bed with a 5 yr old but it would make it harder for the child to disappear. Though not impossible. Our 19 mo old daughter sleeps in our bed most nights and I have learned to sleep through alot of her movements. Also, my parents were robbed last year and the person came through the window across from where my Dad was sleeping and walked up next to the bed (where he had dropped his pants) and took his wallet out of his pants pocket, found my Mom's purse and went back out the window without waking them up. I think it would take someone very determined to do that with a child involved. What could have happened if the child cried out and woke up the GF or the little boy?
It scares me to think it would be possible for one of my children to disappear like that!

hey people i had my first baby at 18 yrs. my mom had hers when she was 15yrs old ,so that goes to tell us that even if someone is young doesnt mean they cant take care of children, and by the way what has smoking got to do with it ne thing,just pray, pray,pray that this little girl is found.and please dont cast stones.

Let me ask my sister. She's the official resident expert on 17-year-old wifosity and mothericity.
Nancy?

As far as I know, the gf didn't have a car. What to do with the five-year-old you just whacked when you're on foot? Put her in a stroller and push her the 8 blocks to the St. John's? Since the St. John's moves like molasses, the body would be hanging out wherever it was left, pretty much.

I hope the little one's still alive. Maybe in some pedophile's closet.

I'm intrigued by the report that the girlfriend's brother and nephews visited earlier in the evening. In addition, a service technician was purportedly there as well. It's quite possible that any one of them might have unbolted and unlocked the back door, and the girlfriend didn't notice. Haleigh's dad says that he checked the door before he left for work, but these visitors arrived after he had gone.

The police said that the AC repairman had been cleared of involvement. I don't know if he touched the door. I know it's been gone over for fingerprints. I've not heard anything about a visit from the gf's relatives. I'll check around.

Her smoking has nothing to do with anything? Of course not, you say. Of course it isn't important that she obviously has little respect for herself and for the laws of her state (which clearly make it illegal for minors to be in possession of tobacco products). How can you not see that this speaks volumes about her lack of a sense of responsibility? Yet there she is, no shame, on national news, everyone knowing good and well that she is 17 years old, and she is lighting one up! Bizarre!

She is the one that I am keeping my eye on.

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I was smoking at her age. And?

When you wait 27 min or 31 days to call police,when a child is missing, you are either;

COVERING UP
CLEANING UP
MAKING UP (LIES)

Donnah:

Thanks for staying on top of the story. As the police have already spoken with the AC repairman, I'm assuming they've asked him if he unlocked the door for any reason. Whoever unlocked that door may have done so quite innocently, and not have understood that leaving the door locked at all times is a cardinal rule in that home.

I'll check back for your updates.

I was so upset by this story, I texted my granddaughter, who is twelve, yesterday. I have drilled her on stranger abduction since she was four. Her lessons included live simulations with her as the "victim." We've gone so far as to put her in a car and have the "perpetrator" drive away with her, so that she could practice her skills on drawing attention to herself, and escaping if possible. We've even put her in the trunk and taught her to escape.

My first, unequivocal rule is: LEAVE WITNESSES!
She's been taught to avoid being taken in the first place by warning strangers away, and preparing to run and scream if they take another single step toward her.

For those readers/posters with small children, another critical rule (when she was younger)was that if she were separated from us in a public place, she was NOT to waste valuable time searching for a police officer. I would NEVER ask a four or five year old child to make a disctinction between a police officer's uniform, a bus driver's uniform, a janitor's uniform...you get my point. She was instructed to find the nearest woman, especially if the woman had children with her, and explain that she was lost. Women represent less than one-half of one percent of all stranger abductions. Personally, I like those odds, and am willing to take a chance that a mother's maternal instincts will serve to protect my baby until she's safely in my arms again.

Everyone, please bear this in mind, and this is why I texted my granddaughter yesterday: Stranger abductions tend to come in flurries. One sicko is stimulated because another sicko has taken a child and gotten away with it.

Talk to your children, please!

Godspeed, little Haleigh.

Did anyone see Greta last night? The dad said he locked the back door before he left for work. The girlfriend said her brother, the A/C guy and some nephews came over around 5 to 5:30. The back door shows no signs of forced entry. Guess that means her brother, the A/C guy or the nephews could have unlocked it......

the girlfriend had something to do with this.

A 25 year old man with a 17 year old live in girlfriend is a crime in itself. I believe it is cinsidered unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Which he should be prosecuted for. No I don't believe he had anything to do with it, I think it's highly likely that the 17 year old CHILD did. I think it's tragic that the focus is on sex offenders in the area who may very well be trying to turn there lives around and have done nothing wrong. And not once have I heard anything about the father sexually deviant behavior with a 17 year old CHILD, he to should be prosecuted for that.

I say they both killed her. Haleigh's real mom was on tv last night and said Haleigh has missed a lot of school and the next time she misses daddy is going to jail. Of course when she was asked why she is missing school the mom was clueless. Mommy is lacking many brain cells also. Mom and dad seem like they are both druggies. There has been no announcement that girlfriend and daddy passed the lie detectors. The police aren't commenting on this. Just because daddy's a good actor and can swear and cry doesn't mean he is innocent.

I'm very concerned about the large bandage on the back of Ronalds neck. Who other than family or girlfriends family has seen Haleighand when?The girlfriend and father are of great concern to me.The family of the girlfriend as well.....Indianagrama

Twila, she's 5 years old. School's not compulsory until you're 6. Biomom's a quart low.

I wonder if this same peanut gallery will come off with apologies when this little girl shows up the victim of some pedophile..

Not nearly as much fun as castigating these kids.

Its very strange to me that the GF said she woke, went towards bathroom, saw the kitchen light on then noticed the back door. What kind of kidnapper turns on a light?

MISTY: You said you think it's tragic that the focus is on sex offenders that may have turned their lives around and have done nothing wrong? I bet you wouldn't feel that way if it was YOUR CHILD one of these creeps were convicted of molesting. Take a look at the statistics of sex offenders. They rarely are rehabilitated and will offend again and again. They deserve no sympathy from anyone.

Donnah,
I know biomom is off her rocker. This is what she said on NG last night though. Maybe the laws are different in Florida? I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't get her to school because they're too busy doing drugs. Daddy look and talks like he is. What are the laws in Florida re: adults being with minors? In some states the age is 16. Either way this guy is a child molester.

Kid's aren't required to attend school until age 6.

Daddy's a crane operator. I doubt he's big on drugs. He wouldn't be alive long if he was. Not much room for error.

The girl has a genetic disorder called Turner Syndrome and has to have frequent medical appointments for hormone injections.

The age thing is just silly. I was living away from home in college at 17, my sister was married at 17. By your lights Laura Ingalls Wilder should have written "Little House of Molestation on the Prairie" because 25 year-old Almanzo Wilder laid claim to 15-year-old Laura.

It is not that she smokes, it is the way she smoked on TV, while walking, taking rather deep drags for a young person (I smoke), like she was very worried - thing is, she looked somewhat shifty and when she taked, it was like she was holding her breath, holding back.

That she sucked on her cigarette like it would be the last hit she ever took, that she seemed to hold her breath while talking, that her eyes shifted all mean that girl is worried rather than afraid for this little girl.

Maybe she had someone over when the kids were sleeping. She may simply know something she is keeping from us. Let's hope so.

This is why we need money in the educational system and Family Planning that is free for everyone.

I am praying for that precious little girl! Please let her be returned to the people who Love her so much !

"..Roger at MKII Systems ran that video interview through the EPG software (e-polygraph) over 3 separate hours and the results and graphs were the same on all 3 occasions. The program determined that they were both being deceptive in their answers at 76.1%. They went on to conclude that the father may be covering up for the 17 year old and that the 17 year old as well as the father know exactly what happened to the little girl..we expect both the father and the 17 year old will be charged next week.."

First of all at the age of 16 a girl can consent to sex, yes with a 25 year old. Unless she cries, 'Rape', nothing will be done. Also, even though there is a law about smoking under age, it is not enforced....ANYWHERE. Them smoking is irrevelent to this case or a person's guilt. They will just probably die of lung cancer or emphysema later on in life. I have not seen a lot of reports on this missing child case, not near as much as Caylee. From what I have heard and seen on TV, my gut instinct was that the girlfriend had something to do with it. I'm not sure the father knows anything, he is too distraught, not the girlfriend. I am not saying she did anything, but there is strong possibility. I think she might have had someone over (possibly cheating) and they took Haleigh. In a high percentage of these cases someone close to the child is responsible. Many are focused on the door....a question...Did the child wake up a lot? Once any of my children are asleep they are down until they wake up the next morning. If she did get up several times a night and the door was left open (Who doesn't check their doors before they go to bed?) she could have wandered out. I personally think that whoever is responsible opened the door to make investigators consider that possibility.

Does anyone think Casey Anthony is innocent? Did anyone think Casey Anthony was innocent very long after the reports started? I never thought she was innocent. She immediately got caught lying...Why lie, if you don't have something to hide? It seems like everything that came out of her mouth was a lie. Why believe her when she says, "I didn't do it."

One other thought, did all the people living in that area KNOW there were so many registered sex offenders living in that small area?

i believe that at 17 sex is legal with parental consent but dont quote me on it. as far as the girlfriends story, you can drive a truck through it. whenever i babysat my godson and he was scared to be in his room alone, i would lay in the other bed. if he moved or even coughed i could hear him. i also seem to think its a little odd that the father said he came home and the girlfriend was standing at the door trying to call him. what perfect timing. and even he said he asked her why she didnt call 911 and she said she didnt know what to do. i dont care if shes only 17. they teach us as early as kindergarten to call 911 for any emergency. so who knows. but who knows because she did pass the polygraph. i just get bothered everytime i hear a child tragedy like this. its a shame the consequences children face in unstable homes.

I can say that people's sleeping behavior differs. One morning after I'd gone to bed early I woke up in my dorm room and there was a dirty fondue pot on the dresser and bowls and fondue forks all over the room. My roommate had had five people over and they ate fondue and watched videos. I slept through the whole thing. I wasn't on anything, I was just tired and crashed hard and slept deep. *shrug*

I love Leonard Padilla. He tried to find Caylie. As I remember, he bailed out Casey to help...but Leonard is a smart one. He soon knew that Casey was in on it, by all of her lies. I do agree that smoking has no bearing in this case. It is ridiculous to even talk about smoking when a little girl is gone. I do think the 17 old tears looked really fake in the first interview. Later, yes - she produced some tears but those tears could have been for herself at the thought of things closing in on her. Caring for two children could have got to be too much for her at her age. I also think Haleigh was the apple of her Daddy's eye - and maybe that didn't sit well with the girlfriend since she is a mere child herself. I feel very sorry for the Daddy and do not believe he is involved in any way. He was working, trying to provide for his family. Meanwhile the 17 year-old doesn't have a job or go to school. She found her a sugar Daddy to live with so she can sit around all day and watch tv, like a lot of 17 year-old would like to do. She probably does party at night while Daddy is gone. Who knows the scenerio? But they need to look closely at the girlfriend.

Anyone think about school contacts - janitors,
construction workers, another place she knows faces,
and most likely familiar enough to go with.
Also, could front door been left open - in order to
go down those back steps quickly, you'd have to have
the screen door propped, out of the way. Light on in the kitchen? Did Haleigh get up thinking it was her father? and she was grabbed , kept quiet? And out the door? LIGHT SWITCH has finger prints too!!
I also think this is ironic to Caley Anothony's memorial date - someone needing attention - in the
spot light - on every news channel, etc.

One more thing to remark. I have two daughters that helped each other get the back door open and the backdoor to the garage open when they were very small and we were aspleep. We awoke and freaked out. Good thing they were safe. The fact is that this little girl may have decided to find her way back to her mothers home and found a way to get out of the house. Even though scared of the dark of she was hurting. Has anybody thought of this. Dogs find their way why can't people? Her footstep found at the railroad track could be the evidence. However, something may have happened to her along the way or she got lost or worse scenario, got eaten by wild animals or an alligator. God forbid!

After hearing the facts available and seeing the parents and other news footage, I am certain that nither the dad, mom or girlfriend had any involvment with this. Completely certain. I can only imagine the pain and horror the family is going through. Keep hope alive, miracles happen and this little girl could turn up alive! To the family, stay strong and know millions are praying for Haleigh, she could be found alive and returned! And for God's sake, I was married at 17, I smoked (gasp), many of my relatives live in trailers, and mu dad was a self styled redneck, and I am an attorney. Do not let stupid stereotypes or outward appearances fool you into thinking you actually KNOW anything about this or any family.TLS

You know I used to think vultures subsisted on carrion alone but now I've come to realize that rampant speculation is a tasty side-dish if there isn't a cold body to pick over.

NOBODY needs to know any of the details that are being served up - just a picture and a name for an AMBER ALERT. All the rest can wait until after a trial, if it should come to that.

This is just "info-tainment" with a pederast marinade for the likes of Nancy Grace and her audience. Nearly as bad as losing a little girl, we will have also lost any chance for a fair trial in the future if someone is charged with a crime.

Again, none of this speculation serves any useful purpose when all efforts should be focused on recovering the child. Instead, the police must also deal with the steadily rising drumbeat of a hungry media, the family is ruthlessly exploited in the "news" cycle, and we are all presented with fodder for lowering whatever level of civility still survives in this country.

Oh yeah, and Happy Valentine's Day everyone! ♥♥

4:00 pm will be an update! Let's hope and pray that
today - Valentine's Day - she is returned safely to
her family. And tomorrow is her brother's 4th b'day
Beautiful weather... God- please bring her home!

i dont think the girlfriend did anything to haliegh because why would the little boy still be left in bed unharmed. after looking at other blogs it makes sense. the girlfriend went out to possibly another trailer and left the back door open cause she was close. the little girl probably woke up and went to look for her. either she is lost out there or 1 of the 44 pedifiles snatched her up. i also read that one of the pedifiles were missing from his registered address and a warrant was issued for his arrest because of violation of probabtion. why else would the girlfriend have noticed 5 minutes before the father came home.

I dont care that Misty smokes. I dont care if Misty drinks. But what is a 17 year old that doesn't work or go to school doing living with a 25 year old? Does she have low self esteem? Where are her parents? That girl is going nowhere with her life.

1-everyone is making a big deal about the girlfriends story changing.The only thing that i recall is her changing where she slept.1st it was in the same bed as haleigh than in another bed in the same room.I think that if there is any lie going on,its where she slept.she is probobly scared to say if she was in ronalds bed because they have a missing little girl and dont want him to be labled as a pedifile.In most states the legal age of consent is 16,i do not see anything wrong with a 17 yr old with a 25 yr old. 2-To all of you who think the girlfriend did it because the kids were too much for her-there is a thing called"breaking up"she was not the childrens mother.She was not "tied down by them". 3-if I had just found out one of my children were gone,id probobly swear too. 4-our president is a former smoker-i guess he's trashy and stupid to...?? 5-bio mom said herself that the court thought the kids were better off with dad.You would think between the court and dads job that if drugs were being used someone would have known. Final thougt,there is a child missing from her home where she was loved,pray for this family dont stereotype them.

What a shame...another child gone in an instant...and our gut instinct already knows the outcome.The whole situation reeks of suspicion.I also the 'tearless' crying of the girlfriend...reminds me of the 'mother' who drove her children into a lake a few years back with them seat belted in the back seat ....Susan Smith? too many child killers to remember.I must say, the biological seems pretty unconcerned as well.No tears there either, well not enough to mess up the make up too much.....never know , mabey her next 'baby daddy ' might be watching. Its too bad we cant just hook these people up to lie detectors immediately when these things happen,might save a childs life , but everyone has their 'rights' ...apparently everyone but these children.I fear the worst will come of this...and another movie of the week.Hate to say it but the words 'white trash' pops in my mind every time I see these people on t.v....pray is all I can say.

did she and the abductor jump on a train? was there a getaway vehicle by the traintracks??

this story, after so many, has me hating people. i honestly think that people should be more aware of thier surroundings, at all times, this seems like a planned abduction, the person probably knew when the father gets home.

we ned to pass a law that all sex offeders will be put to death.

Father's rap sheet is longer than my arm!!! Nice role model for his kids, NOT!

heather - pedifile? probobly? lololol

anyone check this guy out he only lives say 200 feet from the cummings trailer...

http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=8989

.10 of a mile from the abducton site.

anyone check this guy out he only lives say 200 feet from the cummings trailer...

http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=8989

.10 of a mile from the abducton site.

Is this story not about a missing five year old child? Or has it become a media circus focusing on the tearless, smoking 17 year old and the cussing, criminal father. Nobody is perfect.

If a child had been abducted from a middle or upper class family, would it not be just as sad? Would it be too much for the mom to take care of her two children, while her husband is 'busy' working late-night and gone on 'business trips'?

We always scrutinize, but the sad reality is that only the people who did this know what happened to Haleigh. And I hope to God they find her safe and sound.

I have a four year old (step)daughter, and she is very resourceful. If she cannot reach something, there's always a chair, and she'll always put it back where she found it, as to not draw any suspicion of wrongdoing.

These stories are so sad, and my heart drops whenever I read these types of stories. I'm one that can never have children, and people like Casey Anthony make me sick. There are so many people out in the world that would lovingly accept your child as their own.

Please pray for the safe return of Haleigh.

Remeber Lacy Peterson's mom? Clear-headed, determined, well-spoken, it certainly helped to bring her daughter's killer into justice. The cursing father & smoking GF cant provide Police helpful information, the father has domesitic violence histroy, he did hit haleigh & her brother. the GF changes story a few time.she might have gone out for cigarettes in the middle of the night and left children alone. she might have been on drug and turned the kitchen light on but didnt remeber...gosh, she could not even tell FOX news how far was Haleigh's bed away from hers, she said 3 or 4 inches, her boyfriends said NO, its 6 feet. it looks like every piece of info she provided is doubtful--I dont mean she intentionally lies, but she is in lack of common sense. 4 inch & 6 feet, she doesnt know the differences.

the Police just said to Nancy Grace that they are not ruling out anyone, the entire world is their suspect.

This is what happens when cousins breed. Both parents are high school drop out losers and 25 yr old Dad has hooked up with a 17 yr old who also does not go to school. These are the type of people that give southerners a bad name - git 'her done. Tear less Misty (white trash name; middle name might be Crystal...) knows something. I say she left the trailer to party elsewhere - outside, in another trailer - somewhere and when she returned the poor baby was gone. Dad chose this person as the care giver of his 2 small children? That speaks volumes about him. Biomom lost custody - that speaks volumes. The 911 operator was attempting to get personal physical information on the child, specifically hair color and MistyCrystalAngel answered 'she's white' - WTF is that? MistyCrystalAngel did not know what 'numerical' meant in response to the street address - gimme a break. She's too dumb to work at Dairy Queen and yet Dad thinks she's a fine parenting substitute. And the child had missed a lot of school - what is that? Too hung over to get up and get the child ready for school? This is nothing but neglect. The children in this case are in my prayers but MistyCrystalAngel, smokin' those Kool Extra Longs knows something.

Juan P. said it the best in the first comment, "...What left leaning reporter could possibly relate..?" or what middle class person either.
There are "hidden" rules..unspoken cues and habits the exist between and among economic classes, I say hidden because one group doesn't recognize the others'.
Do you know what churches or sections of town have the best rummage sales? Do you know how to get someone out of jail? Can you physically fight or defend yourself? Do you know where the free medical clinic are, or can you live without a checking account? Can you move in half a day?
Are you good at trading and bartering? Can you get by without a car? Do you know how to keep your clothes from being stolen from the laundromat?
Here's more..
Do you know how to get your kids into Little League, piano lessons, or other? Do your kids know the best name brands of clothing? Do you talk to your kids about going to college? Do you know how to get the best interest rate on a new car loan? Do you repair or replace items in your house almost immediately when they break, or know a repair service and call it? Can you help your kids with their homework, or hesitate to call the school if needed?
Do your understand your an annuity, term life, disability, house, flood, and replacement insurance, or a 20/80 medical policy?

There is another quiz for wealth, but I won't mention any questions...because most of us would feel like dumbasses.
I'm not justifying one thing or the other. It just seems that a lot of opinions here have been based on social particulars that are not shared between economic, regional, or cultural groups.

One more thing "numerical" that is a vocation specific vocabulary term that could throw off many people.

Until everyone wants to put forth more energy in changing the laws that protect children from unresponsibile parents or from pedophiles...I think that the focus should be on the safe return of the child. I can totally understand the father's rage when he found his daughter was missing. Especially living in the state of Florida which seems to spawn pedophiles...it is scary...and personally I don't believe any of them are "better" and should all be shot in the head. Not to mention, in this great country of ours, animals are protected more then children are. Why that is is beyond me....people can repeatedly abuse their kids and get them back time and time again...without jail without nothing....but abuse a cat and you are in big trouble and restricted from ever owning animals again...but any asshole can have a kid, watch a kid and when they mess it all up...it makes good tv....the whole thing makes me sick!!!!!

I think pedophiles should get the death penalty!!!!

I am very concerned about the past tense the GF used when she said "I loved that little girl."

Nancy - "numerical is vocation specific" - cmon. You mean, as in 'numerical order' - 3rd graders understand that. I don't agree with your observation. I belive there are many poor honest people. Annual income has nothing to do with decency. Dropping out of school and shacking up with an older man, and not working or being responsible says a lot about a person, regardless of income. There's trash that lives in mansions and salt of the earth in ghettos and trailers. Mistycrystalangel is irresponsible stupid trash and the baby's father chose her as a caregiver. Case closed.

I said I wasn't trying to justify one thing or the other. Of course good and bad has no economic boundaries. GF could be guilty, but not because she smokes, and by our standards baby's father probably would have picked a 24 year old loser too. But the point is, economic class does determine decision making, and not understood by people unfamiliar (as a general rule).

"What's your numerical?"
All I can say is.. the next time you make out an invitation, give your address, or such, say that your "numerical" is..xyz , and the recipient will propably think, "What the hell.. is he a dispatcher or something?"
Vocation specific.

Numerical is not "vocation specific". The kids in my class know what it means and they are Gr 3! LOL

I first suspected Misty while listening to her 911 call. She said huh so many times because she was stalling to come up with an answer that she thought would not incriminate her. She's the one the investigators need to go to. A 17-year-old is not responsible enough to take care of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old. They want their friends around, talk on cell phones or listen to their music. Why was Haleigh out of school so much? This home situation needs to be investigated thoroughly. The crime came from the home-- you mark my words and watch.

I first suspected Misty while listening to her 911 call. She said huh so many times because she was stalling to come up with an answer that she thought would not incriminate her. She's the one the investigators need to go to. A 17-year-old is not responsible enough to take care of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old. They want their friends around, talk on cell phones or listen to their music. Why was Haleigh out of school so much? This home situation needs to be investigated thoroughly. The crime came from the home-- you mark my words and watch.

DANA ~ ITA. Misty is very suspicious... Not sure about Dad yet...

Has anyone heard about Junior's 4th b'day? The command center moved today to Palatka - allowing family and neighborhood to get back to being quiet.
Does this mean Ronald Cummings has returned to his
home? I think Misty needs to be hyptnotized - such
a traumatic experience for a 17 yr. old that appears to have had a troubled life.

I don't think the father is involved. His reaction appeared to be genuine - fear and anger, regardless of where the anger was misdirected (911 operator). The safe return of the girl is not looking good at this point -too much time has passed. What else could it be but an abduction, accomplished via the girlfriend's carelessness? She left the home, took a ride maybe? From what I understand the homes are not close to each other - the neighbors may not have heard a car. Some perv (in the complex?) could have been watching - knows dad is at work, sees the only other 'adult' in the house leaving. DGT - hypnotize Misty? That means you'd have to believe her line about sleeping in the same bed, the next bed, the next room - cmon. She's making it up. When she was interviewed outside, and there were no tears - she was obviously tranked up (tranquilizers) - her slurred speech, lack of emotion. It bothers me that the search dogs followed the scent to the water's edge. That poor litle 5 year old with such a sad life, missing school, not seeing her mother. God bless her - I hope and pray she is safe and will be found.

Geraldo Sun. night (http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/index.html) reported Misty's cousin who had
molested her at age 13, as well as another family member- visited Misty/Ronald a few months ago -
stole a gun from Ronald - he's from TN- a sexual predaor - being investigated. The 8 yrs. difference in M/R's age - her troubled life - security with a
man & his 2 kids - taken by surprise right at the time Ronald is coming home from work- had Ronald's temper - anger streak been seen before - fearful of
his reactions? The feelings of irresponsibility.

So many closet pedophiles, so many assumptions..
It's hard to keep up with which trailer trash is
guilty, and which is just being victimized by liberal blogdom.

This little girl would love to be back in her daddy's trailer.
God bless the efforts of school teachers and the Sunday School outreach people who are trying to help them all out of the generational poverty cycle.

"generational poverty cycle"

Yeah, that and removing the fed's boot off our necks wouldn't hurt either.

nah, that would be "situational" poverty. :)

Whoever said that a 16 year old girl can consent to sex with anyone, is wrong. Please look up the age of consent for the state of FL. Anyone over the age of 24 sleeping with someone under the age of 18 is committing a FELONY. It makes me sick, really. I don't believe the father has anything to do with Haleigh's disappearance but he should be in jail on felony charges of sleeping with a minor. He's as much a sex offender as the other 44 in the area! He gets a free pass to screw up Misty's life because his daughter is missing?

I agree..she (girlfriend Misty) isn't REALLY CRYING!!! 1st Haleigh was in bed with her, then she was in her own be IN THE SAME ROOM. If someone did go in2 the house and take the girl, How could she not wake up? How could she not hear the persons footsteps/movement. Trailer wall's r very thin and u can here everything. She didn't hear the door open. The "person" who supposedly took the girl turned the kitchen light on..COME ON. MISTY said she passed the lie detector test not a detective or anyone else. What I think what happened is the Girlfriend was jealous of the little girl's relationship with the father and wanted her out of the picture. And another thing, she says how much she loves the girl but in the 911 tape she had 2 ask the father what Haleigh's birthday was...DUH

I wonder if Misty's fingerprints are on the brick. She woke up and found the child missing after a nite of smoking pot or whatever. Didn't know how she would explain that and decided to make it look like someone broke in. Yet there was no sign of forced entry.

Well you can marry your first cousin in New York, but not in Florida.

I don't get it with the libtard mindset..first, they want to teach the kindergarten crowd that its ok to have intimacy with your poodle, then they bitch when a sixteen or seventeen year old has
'relations'.
I'm thinking maybe I should go back and see how old
half the president's wives were when they married, but it would be a waste of my valuable fcuk off time.

By the way.. The 'father' is not a country 'redneck', that is a slur anyway..much like calling someone a negro.

He was educated *by law* in the wonderful public school system that WE paid for. He actually speaks pretty good considering those circumstances.

This isn't some isolated incident that the greasy keyboard set gets to point their little shift key at and say 'ewwww' .. These are your future leaders...and some of them are laying their bumpkin asses on the line for you somewhere.

Casson - as you turn up the volume while listening to Rush, why don't you have another sip of that Hannity Kool-Aid?

boy, Do YOU have the wrong guy, BG.. I voted for Chuck Baldwin, and oppose support for Israel.
Wanna try again ?

Csason - my apologies - I misinterpreted your comments. I enjoy spirited discussion and don't want to alienate anyone. However, the father is a redneck - cmon. I'll bet he's got a Nascar tatoo. Don't rednecks celebrate their 'hillbilliosity' - I'm serious. Regional pride, etc. MistyAngelCrystal is the literal 'dumb as dirt' - high school drop out, poor grammar, dirty shirt. She was irresponsible in leaving the children unattended at night,but the real blame lies with the father of the kids for trusting their care to a 17 yr old.

No, this kid probably has tats of Tupac. Who cares.

This *story* has taken a life of it's own, and it all revolves around the demeanor and education level
of these people, not around the system's ineffective treatment of pedophilia.
Tonight, I listened to an awful recollection of the attack of the monkey in Conn. She was using "It don't matter" and lived in a trailer, surrounded by trashy objects..and she very stupidly allowed a pet
to rip her friends face off, but I wonder if the discussion will revolve around the crime, or the education level of the lady ?

I am amused at how many people are so *shocked* by the age and circumstance of these kids, and *their* kids..as if the norm is any different since time before man, first..then second, that
if, as I suspect this is, a case of another 'street friendly' pedophile doing his thing, and his actions are completely subverted, and diminished, by somehow displacing some of he guilt onto the victims by attacking their socio-economic level..

Where's the love, folks ?

Csason, my friend, you have a fine mind, a deep thinker. Correct. Your observation has caused me to shift the focus from the VICTIMS of the crime, to the perv who committed the crime. Agree with the street friendly observation. The perv was 'always' lurking in the background, realized an opening for the deed and committed the crime. Having said that, did he (and it's always a he) have a however unwilling, partner in crime? Partner would be the person whom MistyCrystalAngel left the house to meet? It could not be coincidental that perv just happened to find an unlocked door so to speak. He was watching and waiting because he was privvy to the information that Mistycrystalangel was regularly leaving the house. After the kids were in bed, 8ish-9-ish, she would take off for a bit, hop in a car, take a ride, smoke some crack, have sex, whatever. Every other time she came back, kids were safe, sleeping. The pedophile KNEW dad worked nights and caregiver left the kids unattended. Neighbor? Friend of dad's? Relative? Friend of the person MistyCrystalAngel was meeting? Gotta be one of those - has to be. Like that filthy 'tard pile of filth that took Jessica Lunford. It's been over a week now and there's no sighting of the child Haleigh - how sad. How scary.

The worm that killed John Walsh's kid chopped his head off, and carried the body around in the trunk
to have sex with..

I don't really think that pedophile's really care how the back door was left open, much the same as a stray dog does not care if your garbage can is a Rubbermaid, or a Wal-mart special.

I'll bet the little girl could pretty much care less how her Daddy talks..but if she is alive, probably would just like to be seen by him..or his young girlfriend.

BTW, did you notice that one police car needed washing..? I did.

what is going on in florida? these things don't seem to happen up here in the snow. don't get all over me csason is just an observation.

I don't know if the rest of the nation realizes that Florida is actually a state populated with northern transplants.
Original Floridians ,or even those of more than a few generations, are a very small minority.
In addition, unusual crimes receives more media attention because of the unique image the sunshine state holds by the rest of the country.
...kind of like a photo of a celebrity with cellulite on their ass.

I'm going to the swamp cabbage festival this weekend...anybody want to go with...?

Nancy - I don't agree. It is most likely purely coincidental that these crimes happened in FL. What is NOT coincidental is the UBER media attention focused on them because these crimes are 'cute white female child' crimes. Without a doubt in any given state at any give time, there are at least 3 missing children. IF those children are not cute white female children, there's virtually no national media attention. Nancy Grace's show was shameful (even more so than usual) in the token media attention recently given to a little special needs Creole boy who went missing. She has not even had the courtesy of giving viewers an update on this case. However, EVERY night, little "Keely' is STILL missing....

Sorry, BG..you wouldn't know how to agree with Nancy about non-Florida people. Unless you are a multi-generational native, it won't make quite enough sense.

The Anthony's are from Ohio.

The media is absolutely selective about what they cover. In fact, it sickens me how the 100 women who are raped daily here in the U.S. are completely ignored so we can get our daily diet of real news..

I just have a problem with people who demean others because of the speech patterns, or level of education..especially in regards to southerner's. For all the good things that Southron people bring to the table, and that is a long list, the current trend is to toss all that whence a 'country redneck' is involved in a crime.

I think of all the offers of fame and glory Alvin York turned down, AFTER he defeated the German's by himself ;)..he didn't talk right, and he married a childhood sweetheart..

I really feel sorry for this father. It breaks my heart to see his frustration and anxiety and worry. Sure , he should have known better than to leave his children with a slack jawed,expressionless, mindless child whose vocabulary seems to be limited to 'i dont know' but hindsight is always 20/20 isnt it? That doesnt make the man white trash.I feel horrible for a comment I left earlier calling them that.Bad Brinda.Hell,I have relatives from the south, doesnt make them trash.If anything I have found most of them to be hard working good honest people who truly love and care for their families.Trash comes in all colors,lets not forget.Look at Casey Anthony.Nice house in the Orlando suburbs-even though it belongs to her parents-well dressed,nice car etc, and her own childs murderer.This fathers torment is heartbreaking.Im sure hes aged and grown up himself quite a bit these last few days. At least he was trying to do the right thing and care for his children.How many 25 year old men do that?

BrokenGold, you made me spit orange juice on my keyboard.

It makes me NUTS to hear Nancy Grace say "Keeeily" (as if she's saying "Kelly" but is drunk stupid).

WHOA, I didn't know Florida's AOC is 18 !!

If Mr. Cummings indeed is 25, he's committing a second-degree felony.

Of course, we don't know that they are sexually relating.

*cough*

2CENTZ U R SOOOO RITE... HOW DID SHE NOT KNO THE GIRLZ BIRTHDAY BUT YET CALL HERSELF THE MOTHER?? I REALLY HOPE HALEIGH IS OK... AND I REALLY HOPE WHOEVER TOOK HER SITZ IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE... I THINK MISTY'Z COUSIN MAY HAVE HAD SUMTHIN TO DO WIT IT

Now all the redneck truthiness is coming out - girlfriend's hillbilly kissin' cousin visiting from Tennessee, fight over a gun, gun found in ditch, cousin leaves town same day as child disappears. I knew there was more to this story, didn't you?

Tera - no, the REAL 'poke hot knitting needles in my eyeballs' moment from the Nancy Grace show is when she INSTANTLY goes from spewing venom, looking like she's smelling some putrid, discussing something horrible like chloro-forming a baby, into 'and now friends, at yer request, 'pitchers' of the twee-ins' - WTF is that??

Has anyone thought of the possibility that the girlfriend sold Haleigh to someone for money?

I saw this little girl on the news,The 17 year
girl knows nothing?I am having a hard time bslieving she was there with the child and poof
child is gone.Some one surrounding the family has to know something.I have nine children,and there is no way a five year old would take off by herself in the middle of the night.I pray the child is safe.Too many children disappearing from their own homes.I could see it if the child were out and about someone.Some people are good liars.

I believe the girlfriend is lying she left the house. I mean HELLO people she had to have left or maybe she sold the little girl she did something, I pray they find the little girl alive and I don't blame the dad I will kill anyone for harming my children and I am by no means a red neck. The family is handling themselves very well. I would be going crazy.

yeah right

grandmothers are pulling the wrong strings with no limits in this couple's triangle, grandmothers speak for them but do not take custody, they dont know how to give advice but not to control their lives.These people are living their lives pretty soon, Do they run of their family homes for this reason, trouble childhoods also?. gf, Ronald and Crystal mom look very tense asking permission to their mother's to speak to the cameras.