Father Wants Mother/Family Investigated

Haliegh Cummings: Father Wants Mother/Family Investigated
July 15, 2009 by: Express

PRESS RELEASE- HALEIGH CUMMINGS CASE FROM HALEIGH CUMMING’S FATHER- RONALD, ATTORNEY




RE: Haleigh Cummings Caseit is safe and appropriate to state that most child abductions are perpetrated not by strangers, but by family members for purposes of illegally changing custody. Crystal Sheffield does not have custody of the parties’ two children, including her daughter Haleigh, which is a social stigma in the eyes of some.

There is often a history of conflict between the parents, with a variety of disputes involving their children. This has certainly been true with Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield.

This press release is in response to the Friday, June 26, 2009 dig and excavation on land owned by Crystal Sheffield’s family in Baker County, Florida.

Forty police officers from five agencies reportedly participated.

The following is a quote from Lieutenant Johnny Greenwood, spokesman for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. The quote was printed in the Saturday, June 27, 2009 Gainesville Sun:
“We are going back over our notes and conducting secondary searches. There has not been any new information leading us that way. We are pretty much going to dig up the horse… There is no information that she (Haleigh) is buried there at all”.

Animal remains were recovered, as expected.

This office certainly hopes that no one in law enforcement is operating on the theory that Haleigh was murdered by her mother’s family.

There is however a more plausible explanation. While this office does not have the statistical data that criminologist possess,

There was in fact a pending contempt hearing for back child support against Crystal Sheffield when Haleigh went missing, which is a possible motive, since she was facing jail incarceration.

This office has provided to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Children and Families confidential memos dated April 1, April 6th, and April 17, 2009, that addressed these issues in great detail and correlated this to the crime scene which showed no signs of forced entry and the fact that Haleigh would have unlocked the door for a family member. The crime scene also featured a door propped open as if staged. A stranger perpetrator would likely have left the door shut to gain time for escape. This supports the notion that someone was trying to divert attention from himself or herself.
We are not making any accusations against anyone. We are asking that Crystal Sheffield’s family be investigated in the same thorough, rigorous manner that Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin Cummings have been investigated. In addition to Crystal’s mother and family in Baker County, Crystal’s father Johnny Marcus “Marty” Sheffield resides in Putnam County, a few miles from where Haleigh went missing.

We hope that law enforcement follows family leads wherever it might direct them, including out of state. The FBI and out of state law enforcement agencies could possibly be of great assistance.

The perpetrator of this offense no doubt never contemplated on February 10, 2009 that this case would receive such media attention.

Continuing attention may yet lead to this case being solved.

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