2010.02.07 - GGS interview with Jacksonville. com

[Searchfortruth]

Grandmom's statement to Ron in jail, "be careful there might be a snitch in there with you" doesn't suggest any honesty on her part, IMO. I wish she had the nerve to tell Ron (what Hank told Misty) that the truth needs to come out about Haleigh. Instead, she felt the need to warn him about snitches in jail.

 

[Pondering Mind]

Can anyone believe that we have been trying to figure these people out for almost a year now? We have found out more in the last couple of weeks than we did in 11 months!


HaLeigh has been "missing" almost a year ...omg, that makes my heart hurt. I hope R & M are reliving every moment in vivid detail for the next few days..I wish I had mailed them pictures of HaLeigh. I would love their reactions caught on camera, I wonder what they would do with them...

 

[Concerned Papa]

What GGM said a year ago and what she is saying now, I realize is two different things but,...........yes, but.....she could not be objective because this was her family. She believed her grandson, MC and of course what TN was telling her. She's now finding out that it never was what "it seemed". There was a whole other life RC and MC were in and she now is beginning to see all that. She's from the old school and I believe that just because she had blinders on a year ago doesn't mean she hasn't become enlightened to the lies that are now coming out. I feel sorry for this woman. She and her husband invested many years in RC and this is the thanks she gets? She's been around a block or two in her 65 years. She knows him through and through. Yes, she's been lied to!!!! She's feeling betrayed herself. I'm beginning to wonder if she's got doubts on what her own daughter has told her.

No wonder all he could find to talk about was his boxer shorts! He didn't give her time to get much of a word in edgewise and his speech seemed accelerated and nervous. If there's one person he doesn't want to know what the absolute truth is......it's GGS.

Baz, I must respectfully disagree as to the motivation for GGM's most recent statements in the Jacksonville.com interview. I believe her and TN are now willing to completely throw Misty under the bus in an act of sheer desperation to save the one they have been covering for with their lies and misdirection to LE from the beginning.

The quote and link below are from GGM's "That's A Crock" interview 9 days after Haleigh disappeared:

I KNOW Misty, ya’ll don’t know her. Those children love her and she loves them. I know everybody makes a big deal that she’s only 17 and that’s true, but she’s a lot more mature than a lot of people that I have seen who are 25 and 30.

She takes care of them. She feeds them, she bathed them, and every morning when Haleigh went out to go to school, she looked like she had just stepped out of a beauty shop.

http://www.wftv.com/video/18748628/index.html

Now a year later, with Ron in jail in a near hopeless situation, GGM lets us know how she really felt:

On Feb. 9, the night after Croslin returned to Cummings' mobile home from the weekend of partying, Sykes dropped by. She said she was upset that Croslin had gone off and left her grandson without anyone to watch over the two kids.

"I was mad because Ronald let her come back," she said. "But it's his house. There wasn't nothing I could do about it other than be mad."

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/...gs_vanished_ronald_and_misty_lost_their_way_l

I read the entire article, and I understand that she's trying to justify a changed position to her observations of Misty's actions over the past year, but IMO, any way you look at it GGM lied.

Until this recent arrest, what had Misty done that was even remotely as bad or personally insulting as her actions the weekend before Haleigh disappeared?

-GGM knew all about the drugs.

-She knew all about the love fest with WBG.

-Most importantly, she knew all about Misty's lame story about sleeping right through someone allegedly abducting her great-granddaughter.

What deviant behavior of Misty's was so much worse than this that GGM's mind was changed? It is my opinion that the only thing that has changed is the level of desperation existing in trying to protect the same one she was protecting a year ago.

 

[LFlorida]

.....she did not sound exactly thrilled to hear from him on that phone call either..

iirc, she didn't answer the phone when he called to tell her about Haleigh gone missing.

It's been said that Ronald had not been living with her of late, so where was he living and why? Where was Jr during that time as well? With GGMS or Ronald?

I'd like to know the answer to this question, too, Ponder. I don't think there was a stripper-girlfriend, fwiw.

 

[Kimmer]

I can only hope that MC will be told of any interviews in the future where TN and GGMS may be throwing her under a bus, And that will be enough for her to say the heck with this, and then her get with LE and let them know exactly what happened...I just can't help but feel that we are much closer to the end of this nightmare than we have been in a long time.

 

[shufly]

What I don't understand is where these grandmothers feel that it is Misty's responsibility to care for the children. Even more so if they knew what Misty was doing that weekend and in the past. Early on it was said by one of the grandmothers that Misty had taken off in the past. Why any of them would of even allowed Misty to be alone with the children makes no sense to me

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i have to respectfully disagree. i take that statement - and God knows i could be wrong because these people are almost as difficult to decipher as the anthonys - but i took it to mean that she was mad because misty took off without giving ron any notice and he had to find childcare at the last minute or not go to work. i mean if misty had been tending to the kids ever since she and ron were together, he would just assume she'd be there to watch them without giving it a second thought and for her to just jump up and disappear would probably irritate me too. not saying it was misty's responsibility, just saying that ron probably didn't feel the need (as most people wouldn't) to confirm with her that she would be there to take care of the kids since she lived there and that's what she had been doing.

as for the grandmothers allowing misty to watch the kids, they may not have had a say so. ron seems like a pretty hot headed guy and if they had stepped in and said bring the kids to my house, i don't trust misty to watch them, he probably would have told them to mind their own busines. they were his kids and he would decide what was best for them. however, both grandmothers seem to want to protect ron's reputation so they stand up for misty in the beginning because it would reflect bad on ron - and them - if they talked negatively about misty.

and just for the record, by grandmothers i mean TN and GGS. this has nothing to do with MG.

 

[SuziQ]

Sorry Baznme, IMHO you are giving that old woman entirely too much credit in regards to her not knowing what happened....
Please don't forget how she praised Misty in those interviews last year.... There is absolutely no reason for her to have done that if she didn't know what had happened to Haleigh, especially in light of what she is NOW stating....
Her main goal from the beginning has been to protect Ron C.. She'll throw anyone under the bus to keep the truth from being revealed. Ron C is already in jail, now she has to attempt to keep her daughter and herself from going to jail..... I suspect both she and her daughter know they are in deep...She is back peddling as fast as she can right now...JMO

Now refresh my memory. Wasn't it GGS who claims to have seen Haleigh on the front porch eating dinner the night before Haleigh went missing?

I've never believed it. So I gotta ask...after the events the past few weeks, does anyone still believe that alibi er story she told?

 

[TxLady2]

Sorry Baznme, IMHO you are giving that old woman entirely too much credit in regards to her not knowing what happened....
Please don't forget how she praised Misty in those interviews last year.... There is absolutely no reason for her to have done that if she didn't know what had happened to Haleigh, especially in light of what she is NOW stating....
Her main goal from the beginning has been to protect Ron C.. She'll throw anyone under the bus to keep the truth from being revealed. Ron C is already in jail, now she has to attempt to keep her daughter and herself from going to jail..... I suspect both she and her daughter know they are in deep...She is back peddling as fast as she can right now...JMO

Right! I don't see how any close family member could have NOT known what was going on right in front of them. They lived less than a half hour from Gma, and unless they took pains not to be high when they were around her, then she had to see it. I can look at someone's eyes I don't even know, and tell if they're using. This is not some revelation that has just come about in the past 2 weeks.

 

[lonetraveler]

What is going on elle is an attempt to rewrite history..to whitewash and protect from charges....

You are absolutely right, stilettos, this interview was nothing but a "damage control" PR stunt. Trying to explain how Ron ended up where he is now. Excuses, excuses.

 

[lonetraveler]

Now refresh my memory. Wasn't it GGS who claims to have seen Haleigh on the front porch eating dinner the night before Haleigh went missing?

I've never believed it. So I gotta ask...after the events the past few weeks, does anyone still believe that alibi er story she told?

And to add one more thing to your post, if I may: The timeline LE has been using is based upon GGMS's story about seeing the children eating on the da** porch. :furious:

 

[lonetraveler]

This heartwarming story of Ron's life (perfect for a lifetime movie) left out a little bit of the story, you know, the part about Misty using her sister-in-laws' pregnancy test to show Ron that she was pregnant and Ron beating her and rolling her up in a ball to try and abort a baby that she wasn't even carrying then dumping Misty at her family's house. What happened to that part of the story about this golden boy. I truly hope that LE have been investigating TN and GGMS along the way this last year. I say bring out the Lie Detector Tests for these two, now. Grandmothers are caught all the time dealing drugs and covering up crimes of their grandchildren.

 

[Baznme]

Grandmom's statement to Ron in jail, "be careful there might be a snitch in there with you" doesn't suggest any honesty on her part, IMO. I wish she had the nerve to tell Ron (what Hank told Misty) that the truth needs to come out about Haleigh. Instead, she felt the need to warn him about snitches in jail.

You do have a very valid point on that but, I think GGM has been finding out more and more just like we have as the days are rolling by. Who knows, I could be totally wrong about her. I've been wrong at least twice today anyway....

 

[lonetraveler]

Both TN and GMA have been in cover mode from day one. Many have suspected that they were lying.

There is no good reason that either of these two could not have watched the children IF they were concerned. Because they didn't, they have had to praise misty on her childcare skills and great love for ron's children..to make sure that people knew misty was just as good as they could have been....thus, making it appear they did no harm.

BBM: Maybe Misty was just as good as they could have been.

 

[mysticrose]

What I don't understand is where these grandmothers feel that it is Misty's responsibility to care for the children. Even more so if they knew what Misty was doing that weekend and in the past. Early on it was said by one of the grandmothers that Misty had taken off in the past. Why any of them would of even allowed Misty to be alone with the children makes no sense to me

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i have to respectfully disagree. i take that statement - and God knows i could be wrong because these people are almost as difficult to decipher as the anthonys - but i took it to mean that she was mad because misty took off without giving ron any notice and he had to find childcare at the last minute or not go to work. i mean if misty had been tending to the kids ever since she and ron were together, he would just assume she'd be there to watch them without giving it a second thought and for her to just jump up and disappear would probably irritate me too. not saying it was misty's responsibility, just saying that ron probably didn't feel the need (as most people wouldn't) to confirm with her that she would be there to take care of the kids since she lived there and that's what she had been doing.

as for the grandmothers allowing misty to watch the kids, they may not have had a say so. ron seems like a pretty hot headed guy and if they had stepped in and said bring the kids to my house, i don't trust misty to watch them, he probably would have told them to mind their own busines. they were his kids and he would decide what was best for them. however, both grandmothers seem to want to protect ron's reputation so they stand up for misty in the beginning because it would reflect bad on ron - and them - if they talked negatively about misty.

and just for the record, by grandmothers i mean TN and GGS. this has nothing to do with MG.

Hi shufly ...good post ..
BBM.... Ron had actually kicked Misty out of the house and threw all of her clothes on Nay Nay's lawn the day Misty went on her three day binge. Ron had notice he is the one who kicked her out.
And it is Rons responsibility to find care for his kids..he probbaly told TN and GGS that Misty just abandoned him and the kids to go party and forgot the little detail about kicking her to the curb.
TN and GGS were probally PO'd because they had to watch them and when Misty returned was mad at Ron for letting her back in the house because they where unaware that he really kicked her out ....

Did that make sense lol..

I also find it interesting that we have now learned that TN should have sat the kids and basicly begged Misty to watch the kids and even offered to pay her ....

 

[mysticrose]

The statement that GGS makes about Misty just getting home before Ron left for work is of interest as well, it all falls back again on the busstop ? The dreaded bus stop, we have heard from several witness's that Misty was there in the van picking the kids up, Misty even said it, then we have Ron saying no he picked up the kids so which is it ? If she got there just before he left for work how could she have picked up the kids ?

I am probally just confusing myself arent I ....

 

[woodville]

The statement that GGS makes about Misty just getting home before Ron left for work is of interest as well, it all falls back again on the busstop ? The dreaded bus stop, we have heard from several witness's that Misty was there in the van picking the kids up, Misty even said it, then we have Ron saying no he picked up the kids so which is it ? If she got there just before he left for work how could she have picked up the kids ?

I am probally just confusing myself arent I ....

No, you're just pointing out the weaknesses in their stories (read lies).

 

[lonetraveler]

I read the article about the interview with GGMS a little while ago but did not watch the video. Now, I can't seem to find it. Could someone please provide the link for the interview with GGMS? Please.

 

[shufly]

Hi shufly ...good post ..
BBM.... Ron had actually kicked Misty out of the house and threw all of her clothes on Nay Nay's lawn the day Misty went on her three day binge. Ron had notice he is the one who kicked her out.
And it is Rons responsibility to find care for his kids..he probbaly told TN and GGS that Misty just abandoned him and the kids to go party and forgot the little detail about kicking her to the curb.
TN and GGS were probally PO'd because they had to watch them and when Misty returned was mad at Ron for letting her back in the house because they where unaware that he really kicked her out ....

Did that make sense lol..

I also find it interesting that we have now learned that TN should have sat the kids and basicly begged Misty to watch the kids and even offered to pay her ....[/QUOTE]

well that clears up a lot! i thought he threw her clothes out at nay nay's after she left and didn't return. guess i heard the cummings' version and missed the croslin side of that story! i was very curious as to why TN would basically beg misty to keep the kids and even offer to pay her to do it. thank you. all i can say is wow! this is one tangled up mess! i do believe all this is about to blow up and we're going to find out that the cummings are not the loving, supportive family they have tried to portray. i can't wait to hear why their love and admiration for misty has dwindled. oh that's right, i forgot, she forced ron to deal drugs with her. stupid me!

and what grandmother does that? i used to split the weekends with my grandaughter's other grandmother and sometimes she would come up with the most lame excuses ever - one time she said she couldn't handle the baby and the dogs and one time she couldn't do it because her 9 year old wasn't there to help her - or she would just not answer her phone if she didn't want to be tied down to a baby that weekend. i knew my daugther needed a break because her husband was in korea and she was doing it all alone. so even though there were many weekends that i was just tired after working all week, didn't feel good or had my own things to take care of, i pushed all that aside and welcomed my grandbaby to stay as long as her mother needed. even through the exhaustion, headaches and backaches, i loved every minute of it. i prayed many many days for nap time to hurry up and come but i wouldn't have traded one second of those times for all the money in the world. i will never understand some people

 

[azwriter]

Sorry Baznme, IMHO you are giving that old woman entirely too much credit in regards to her not knowing what happened....
Please don't forget how she praised Misty in those interviews last year.... There is absolutely no reason for her to have done that if she didn't know what had happened to Haleigh, especially in light of what she is NOW stating....
Her main goal from the beginning has been to protect Ron C.. She'll throw anyone under the bus to keep the truth from being revealed. Ron C is already in jail, now she has to attempt to keep her daughter and herself from going to jail..... I suspect both she and her daughter know they are in deep...She is back peddling as fast as she can right now...JMO

Your post Em, warms the cockles of my heart. I too think Sykes and TN are back stepping to cover their butts. They know what went down last Feb. And now they are scared Misty, Ron and Hank Jr. might be forced into telling it all. JMO

 

[snowshuze]

Keep talkin' Granny. LE's listenin'.
And takin' notes.