Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said investigators assume Haleigh Cummings was abducted because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday found no evidence that she wandered away. Haleigh’s father Ronald Cummings also said he didn’t believe she had left their home in the middle of the night.
I haven’t seen her but I’ve been mostly working on my report. Her grandmother, Nancy Griffis, 43… let’s see. And the little girl what’s missing is five. So let’s say 43 – 5 = 38. Ok. And 38/2 = average childbearing age of these ones. That would be 19. Okay. I expected it to be younger somehow when I read that.
This part is gack…
I just don’t get that at all. Gack. That’s a cheererupper.
Just down the road a bit from here, where the ongoing vigil is heartbreaking.
WTF with Florida?
Just pray, and keep a weather-eye, Joan.
There’s no corner of Hell hot enough for people who do this to kids.
Anyone else read “The Shack,” by the by?
This part is sorta unexplained…
They don’t say who put the brick there.
oh. I’m the most heartless one again I guess. I hate it when that happens. I don’t mean to be but this is southern and gothic and interesting in a sort of faulkneresque way. Ok so anyone else notice how this might be relevant? Meaning if something utterly tangential can be relevant…
There’s something like 300,000 missing children in America.
This story is heartbreakingly common. Probably the majority are taken by non-custodial parents, or are runaways, but even if 10% of 300,000 are taken by strangers, it is heartbreaking.
I think someone convicted of even one instance of pedophilia should be locked up forever. Murder to hide pedophilia should be a special circumstance crime resulting in death by impalement within one appeal/5 years, or in the case of DNA evidence, 10 minutes.
FOR THE CHILDREN!!
Yeah. Has Mark Lunsford showed up yet?
I have a bad feeling about this.
Wasn’t that horrible story about that girl who ended up being taken by a neighbor and buried in his backyard … wasn’t that in Florida. Because, I’m thinking WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with Floridians?
Either they attract sexual deviants, or parents don’t give off a strong enough “don’t fuck with my children vibe.” I need to know which, ’cause my cousin lives down there and has a baby.
Sorry ’bout all the “fucks” but I’m just not in a good mood these days.
Yeah, but before she was buried alive, she was in the trailer with the trailer trash and the psychotic pedophile while the cops were knocking on the door looking for her.
On the bright side, Bill O’Reilly got a bunch of laws named after her. Meh.
Mark is a good shit, though. I met him in DC once.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t thor tell us all last year that he lives in Florida, off of A1A near Melbourne / Canaveral? I know who would head my suspect list.
Not what I wanted to see this morning.
From ELP’s “Daddy”
That brings tears, serr8d.
I have one child, a daughter, 18. Thanks to the unfathomable vileness known as the national child support industry, I lost her four times. Pablo knows. I never quit because I couldn’t.
But to lose a daughter forever — a small child — must have no comprehensible, expressible spiritual component. I’m guessing terror and utter despair don’t quite define it.
There are many reasons to promote the private enforcement of law with extreme prejudice. These cases are probably the most vigorous of those reasons.
I have very conflicted feelings regarding the death penalty, cases like this are one of the strongest proponents for it. There is one sure way to guarantee a child molester doesn’t ever do it again.
The pieces of shit who do stuff like this should be shot in the village square. Shot by someone with bad aim, so perhaps they hit an arm …a leg … the gut before they slowly and finally get the kill.
People who molest children obviously don’t fear society’s wrath as much as they should. It is our failing.
John Couey leaves me with conflicted feelings about the death penalty. I’m troubled by the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Given the opportunity, I would be unusually cruel to Mr. Couey. And I’d still be dismayed that you can only kill him once.
Here is part of the 911 call Misty made. So the brick just appeared out of nowhere is what she says. She went to sleep and when she woke up the back door was propped open with a brick.
The dad was already ballistic at this point, probably because the whole brick thing had to mean someone had taken her is what they figured right away.
Here’s the rest of the transcript cause it’s not linked from the first one.
Last interesting thinger was this…
Here’s their web page. It’s called EquuSearch cause there are horses involved. Texas ones. These are the ones they are looking for now. There’s two pages of them. I guess it’s quite an operation.
Still living in the wrong country, meya? It shows.
Carin
“People who molest children obviously don’t fear society’s wrath as much as they should. It is our failing.”
The fear is part of the buzz; the deviation and depravity is that they are convinced they are right and everyone else is wrong. These parasitical germs group together to give each other strength. Like all destructive bacteria they should be exterminated. A weak, pampered, pussified society like ours is vulnerable. History has shown that such depravity is of high incidence among those who frame and adjudicate the laws of ‘civilised’ countries.
When homo sapiens goes really bad it is the most evil phenomenon so far discovered in the Universe (even greater than the election of Barack Obama as POTUS). Death to those who defile the young and innocent. Eternal damnation to those who protect the defilers.
Can someone explain why there is an inordinate number of such crimes in Belgium. Or come to that, Florida?
I used to get annoyed by meya, but this morning’s low just makes me sad for it. It takes a really withered soul to look at a family’s loss of their daughter and turn it into an excuse to take potshots at internet political rivals.
When praying for the safe return of the little girl, spare a brief prayer for meya.
I have a four year-old girl so this stuff cuts to the quick. A great reason to keep two big dogs in the house, even if they are constantly underfoot and shed enough to knit sweaters.
There is one sure way to guarantee a child molester doesn’t ever do it again.
There is only one sure way to guarantee a child molester doesn’t ever do it again. There. Fixed the typo.
A house-to-house search for a child of mine would involve a gun. I wouldn’t take no for an answer. They could arrest me later.
In addition, a (legal) house to house search (mind you, I’m pefectly OK with an illegal search) would also enable the searchers to rule OUT certain houses.
If the creepy guy down the street refused? I’d find a way in.
“A house-to-house search for a child of mine would involve a gun. I wouldn’t take no for an answer. They could arrest me later.”
Do you live in one of those states where they let you shoot people who break into your house?
Break into their house? No, I’d knock and then ask if I could search. With a gun at my side. Explaining why. How am I breaking into their house?
Look, I’m just being honest here. If someone had a child of mine, I wouldn’t really care about the rule of law. They could arrest me later.
I’m sorry, Carin, but if you showed up at my door with a gun and demanded entry, there wouldn’t be anyone to arrest later.
Well, me, I suppose. But you wouldn’t be coming into my house.
I’m just saying. If my kid were missing, I would do whatever I had to to find ’em. I’d also assume that most people would cooperate once the situation was explained. If someone showed up at my house, with their kid missing … I’d let them search, and then I’d join them in their efforts elsewhere.
I’m assuming that most people would be more interested in helping than being concerned about their rights. If I’m wrong, than I’m wrong.
If my kid were missing, I would do whatever I had to to find ‘em.
I suggest that knocking on the door of strangers with a gun in your hand would be a poor strategy toward that end.
I’d also assume that most people would cooperate once the situation was explained.
Really? If a stranger showed up on your doorstep with a gun, you’d let him into your house, just because he told you a story?
The house won’t get searched at that time.
What about if the house is abandoned?
I also imagine a house-to-house search was conducted to insure that the child just hadn’t wandered away and ended up at a neighbors.
In addition, such a search could hopefully yield information regarding strangers/stragne occurances in the area.
If my neighbor showed up at my door, distressed, saying that his child was possibly abducted. Yep. I’d let them in.
Here’s more gack.
I can understand a phone call. But this is just tabloid bait I think.
If my neighbor showed up at my door, distressed, saying that his child was possibly abducted.
I didn’t say your next door neighbor. I said a stranger. And with a gun?
C’mon, Carin. You’d call the cops.
And reading this:
Stolen by a NEIGHBOR. She was RIGHT THERE. Fucker. That guy was, I’m sure, creepy. And, had someone decided to be forceful about the issue with him perhaps she wouldn’t be dead.
Well, I’m sorry I didn’t properly frame my position. Personally, I wouldn’t search a house by myself anyway. This girl was from a trailer park. I certainly don’t think it’s far out to consider that many , if not most, of those people knew each other. People fan out, check all the houses they know, etc… spreading the word and checking for anything suspecious as they went.
SBP, do not argue with the mother bear. Just back slowly away. If it rushes, drop to the ground and curl into a ball with your hands on the back of your neck.
Also, as noted above, the house-to-house search was to confirm she hadn’t wandered away.
So, back to the point that meya is making an irrelevant point.
DAMN, sidetracked again.
And dependent on the intent or grasp of an unnamed AP reporter at that.
Is that true about dropping to the ground and curling up?
yup.
There are lots of bears in Florida, you know. I looked it up once.
On this page you can scroll down and see a chart about all the different ways people in Florida interact with their bears.
Not if there’s someone else with you that you’re sure you can outrun, goes the old joke.
Seems to me like Bill Bryson claimed in A Walk in the Woods that there is a difference between bear species in this regard, that you might have a shot curling up with a black bear but little chance using that tactic with a Grizz. I dunno. Others say climb the skinniest tree you can as fast as you can.
Yeah. I thought about it while I was making coffee and decided I really wasn’t a lay on the ground and curl up in a ball kind of guy. But it’s not like I’m gonna encounter nature anytime soon. I see deer around here sometimes, but that’s just weird. Urban deer. They’re deer what aren’t living right is what I think.
See? Unlike some [Warren Bonesteels], the crap I make up is mostly true.
Just kidding. I knew that from living in Alaska.
Fla fish and game says if you climb a tree you’re screwed. I’m thinking avoid the farkin bears is a good strategy where it comes to bears.
I’ll have to practice the rolling up into a ball thing. Not right now I mean later.
ok so that’s her grandfather on her mom Crystal’s side. Johnny. Grandpa Johnny. This is so made for tv.
I’m kind of despairing of finding two people involved in this story what have the same surname.
This comment from that last link…
an interesting mind ElJefe has I think.
you need an abacus to keep up with these people
here’s Grandma Griffis…
these people are wonderful. Also it’s hard not to suspect that everybody’s just pretending not to notice that Ronald and Misty are likely afoul of the laws about when you can have sex and stuff in Florida.
that stuff they found yesterday and sent to the lab turned out not to be anything. This is new though. To me anyway…
That sounds familiar. oh.
This is the first I’ve read this…
oh. That seems weird to just be reading that now, but ok. They’re looking for Chad now cause he’s sort of a sketchy character but that seems like a longshot.
See… these other ones get the whole bathroom thing backwards…
Someone may or may not have gone to the bathroom. And also there was a brick.
If you scroll to the bottom here there’s a picture of where Ronald works. They helped build the The St. Louis Arch it says.
Happy, I’m glad your on top of this. I can avoid Greta now.
I’m on the case, Carin. Where you can get lost is reading all the threads where people speculate, but the reporting on this has been really really bad I think. The brick is most likely a cinder block I think… but that’s never been reported. I’d think you’re more likely to find a cinder block around a trailer than a for real brick. I would like to see a picture of this brick.
meanwhile, psychics suspect foul play
oh. Ronald + Misty = Love4Ever. Tacky question but I been wondering. If your kid vanishes in Feb do you get to claim her as a dependent for the whole year or how does that work exactly? This is new. That’s the bedroom where for sure we know Haleigh is not.
This part I did not know.
That’s…
Anyway. This is grim grim grim.
That’s child abuse I think.