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DotsEyes you bring up a lot of good points. The first is Crystals response to her LTD and its results. I am not too sure if Crystal is unsure of the reliability of the test or her answers given during the test. The truth surrounding all the tests given by LE and or the FBI have not been revealed as of yet have they? The only tests we have is that of Misty's that was given by an independent and coordinated by TM.
Crystal's only response is that she took a LDT, she guesses she did okay, and the test was sent off to Washington. She has said nothing else about them.
The media is truly unreliable to present only the facts and not the embellished rumors and sensationalized lies that cloud or all together hide the facts and mislead the public. Is it not their job to investigate and present the facts to enable the public to actually be of assistance in bringing home HaLeigh or is it to just sell a paper or get a hit on their website?
I would submit that the media involved in this case cared very little about facts and often got them wrong and never bothered to correct the misinformation when it was made obvious they were wrong. I would further submit that it IS their job to investigate what they are presenting. This case has been a demonstration of how NOT to report on a missing person. From beginning until now.
I agree again with your conclusion that something was going on with Crystal 2 days prior to HaLeighs abduction. With no history of seizures in the past and the recurrences within such a short time frame and the circumstances surrounding the onset and the following episodes do beg for understanding the coincidence of this sudden condition.
It has been revealed that it was caused by stress and Crystal had been advised to avoid stress.
I do not recall that a source for the seizures has been determined, or revealed to the public. But it is common sense that a person with a seizure disorder of unknown etymology avoids stress and stressful situations. Her daughter being missing is an obviously unavoidable stressor and therefore could be considered a mitigating factor in the re-occurrence of the seizures.
The issue of her past due child support and the timing of the pending court date in conjunction with the seizure is understandable, but, I find that the additional fact that HaLeigh was abducted soon there after gives me pause and I have to consider if Crystals stress was an accumulation of 3 years of not paying and realizing that very day she was going to be facing jail time( Was Crystal's seizure prior to receiving the court order to appear) or if it was something else that caused Crystal to stress and trigger a seizure for the first time. In my opinion the timing of each seizure is of importance to understanding the triggers that cause these stress induced seizures.
Past due child support, accumulating like a spectre in the window of reality would be an obvious source of stress, and given Crystal's passive personality, an inevitable train ready to hit her on the tracks. Being served with papers, and having no means to pay a lump sum to the court for past due amounts would cause anyone's stress factor to jack into the stratosphere. I imagine that this passiveness, and the lack of paying over the years, fed into Crystal not attempting to interfere too much with the children, because she knew Ronald could at any time throw this at her and it would have been avoided at all opportunity.
Crystal is not Nay Nay or an Amber Brooks but she is a mother of three children and with that comes responsibilities, such as protecting, providing and total involvement in your children's lives. IMO the obvious lack of this responsibility on Crystal's part is why the public has criticized her.
You are right; she is neither of these other young women, and an unfair comparision, to boot. I believe Crystal understands the responsibilities of being a mother; she ignored the responsibility of child support in the monetary factor. There is no excuse, and Crystal makes none for herself. She didn't pay it and she knew it was going to bite her in the butt. I don't think, in all her ruminations and worries about how she was going to pay the funds she owed, did she imagine one of her children would disappear into the night never to be seen again. The public would rightly criticize her for her failure in the monetary sense, but we have seen NOTHING which would allow for censure in the way she loves her children. They are separate in my mind, but I can see where others will choose the totality of the responsibility of "mother" to include monetary support. I concede it is a point I can only counter by the claim of the father to be making plenty of money to have supported his children, given that he never lived alone until November of last year, and was living with the help of his mother/grandmother until then, and the children were at least both accounted for until their father chose to move in a teenaged babysitter/lover.
The argument that she was not allowed or prohibited from being the children's mother holds not weight when the public considers the fact that this mother was not aware of HaLeighs school schedule and circumstances surrounding her children. I would argue that she does know these small facts and chose to play ignorant of any knowledge surrounding HaLeigh's first year in school.
It has been presented many times that Ronald would not cooperate with Crystal regarding the children. He had the money she owed him as leverage to keep her cowed down from asserting her parental rights. No matter what one thinks of the other parent's actions, it is no reason for a parental alienation. And that is what Crystal had, except for those weekends she was allowed. Crystal doesn't need to play ignorant when she is in FACT ignorant of the child's school schedule. She admits that she is ignorant. She doesn't fake it. When asked why she doesn't know, she doesn't blame Ron; she says "I don't know." Where could she go with that answer anyway? Say "Ron alienated me and wouldnt' tell me" would just incite the very condemnation you mentioned above. Taking it on herself to say "I don't know." at least gives it to her to examine herself and say "I should have known. I could have done more. I should have." I'm sure this eats her up daily. But I don't hold it against her. With no parental alienation, there are children all over whose parents don't know when they go to, or get out of, school. Who don't know where the bus stop is. Who don't know when they get picked up by the bus, or dropped off. It doesn't make them criminally negligent in the knowledge of their children. I believe there is enough mitigating circumstance to believe that Ronald kept this information from her.
Crystal has stated she called Ron and wanted the children early on a school day and Ron advised her he could not allow it because HaLeigh had missed to much school already. Crystal claimed she was not aware of Haleighs absences after HaLeigh was abducted or when HaLeigh gets out of school and or off the bus, but, we have been made aware that it had been discussed prior to HaLeighs abduction with Ron about these particular facts and find it unbelievable that Ron did not state when Haleigh got out of school and got off the bus in that particular conversation.
Why is it unbelievable that Ronald wouldn't mention it? As we've since discovered, Ronald wouldn't let Crystal have Haleigh until 6 p.m. Friday (after school got out) and she had to be back by 6 p.m. Sunday. Ronald himself asserts that he did not let "the mother" know where he lived. They met at a drop off point. I see one parent at the mercy of the other parent's whims. Crystal had every right to call the school and ask about her daughter's progress; I don't believe she felt she could without causing problems. While that is passive and an affront to many here, that is a reality for a lot of women who choose the lesser of two evils to keep the peace. It is the hallmark of an abusive relationship. Whether they were together or no, it was still one of power and passivity.
Your last point of Crystal not reporting the relationship between Ron and Misty is possibly not the truth. It has been revealed that DCF was involved in the Cummings home (since Misty and Ron started seeing each other in Sept 08). By October Ron had been advised by DCF to move into a 3 bedroom to allow the children their own rooms. IMO DCF was made aware of the relationship and possible Misty's involvement is why DCF was called to investigate the Cumming's home in the first place. IMO the truth reveals the facts and until we can get the truth the facts will remain elusive. Not bashing Crystal, just want the truth.
There is no documentation that DCF was at the home while Ronald and Misty were together; only that DCF had been called to the home before. If I am wrong, I would surely appreciate the link which shows me. As far as I know, the only source for moving into the 3 bedroom home was a member here who claims to know Ronald personally. If DCF found it acceptable to have an underage sexual partner/babysitter, I'll eat my hat and consider all children in the State of Florida at risk, including the 16 year old underage sex partner/babysitter.
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