pittsburghgirl
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Interesting that you'd say that, considering you wrote this (correct) post below just 11 days ago:
So 2 weeks ago and in other posts since, it was clearly evident and rightly important to you that being "cleared" is a big deal, but "not a suspect," which is what LE said about Ron, isn't.
Bottom line: LE said Ron & Crystal were "not considered suspects". They never said either were "cleared," and Ron's own lawyer says he has not been cleared. Reporters just misinterpreted LE's statement from the first day it was issued.
You have taken a post I made on another thread, about another case, in response to different language used by LE in a different state, and used it to twist my words and attempt to prove I am--what? not consistent? a friend of Ronald Cummings? (Never met him or anyone else in this case). My point is and has been that various media outlets were given the Sheriff's Office press release and wrote stories, from which I have posted quotes and links. All of them say, in more or less the same terms, that LE does not consider this to be a stranger abduction and the bio parents are not considered suspects. These points were made at the same time, in the same place, which seems to indicated, to me at least, that LE isn't looking at the bio parents or stranger abduction. I have also said the LE has NOT corrected in any place I have seen the statements that the bio parents have been "cleared of suspicion." I would expect a correction if reporters had misrepresented the LE position.
My comments on the Cornwell case were a response to posters who were having a similar argument over someone who was stated to be "cleared." Those posters were arguing that a cleared individual might turn into a suspect; I merely said (correctly, I think) that "cleared" is the least equivocal statement about a person involved in a case.
Let me be clear: Based on what I have read, I don't think Ron Cummings is a suspect. That is my reading of the Sheriff department's press release. You all are entitled to your own opinion.
DaveAHFB, the Sheriff's Dept. press release is the primary source. I posted the link earlier. You seem to think I was avoiding the thread and ignoring your post. However, I have a job that sometimes requires very long days--today 12 hours. Today I have been dealing with a student who has had an immediate family member diagnosed with leukemia. I also have a family and other responsibilities when I do get home. I do not check WS every day, as Muffet, who went to the trouble of pulling up and reading my posts looking for inconsistencies can tell you.
Tonight someone was kind enough to point out you had asked me to post new links and had posted that I was not responding to you. When someone starts to pay me for posting, I'll quit my job and do this full time. Otherwise, I hope I am accorded the courtesy that other posters receive, the right to come, read, and post as my time allows--even if others don't care for what I have to say.