It isn't about Junior figuring out ad contradicting anyone on his own, it is about Junior asnwering questions he is asked by the child psychologist who "interviewed" him. No adult was there feeding him answers.
LE is going to question anything that Junior contradicts.
I assume LE questioned Jr. I didn't expect Jr. would be sitting there going over everything that was said and injecting himself on his own if he didn't agree with something that was said. I guess I should make myself more clear:
If Misty and Ron claimed they put Haleigh in their room at bedtime to settle down and/or go to sleep, and then move her to her own room later, like when Misty is ready for bed, then IMO even if LE questions Jr. about it, he wouldn't be able to say, "No, that is not true, Haleigh sleeps there all night long, because she is always there in the morning." IMO, this is something he just probably would not pay attention to.
Junior tells them that Haleigh sleeps in the room with Misty and him.
I've never seen where Jr. tells them this, however, I have seen where Misty tells LE this, which was my point.
LE is going to wondering why on the night that Haleigh disappeared, she did not sleep with Misty like normal but slept by herself.
Why? Why would LE wonder why a 5-year-old girl was not sleeping with Misty but sleeping in her own room unless someone made them aware that is the normal conditions there? It's not like LE had some way to know this before the 911 call was made, or before they got to the residence and they were told this. It's not like it is SOP for 5-yr-olds to be sleeping with their parents, step-parents, or parent's live-in girlfriends. Another thing LE probably didn't know at the time, is Ron moved to the MH because DCF required Haleigh and Jr. to have rooms of their own, so just another reason to think Haleigh would not be sleeping with Misty.
As far as what Junior did see or did not see, I don't think they considered LE asking about what happened that day BEFORE Haleigh disappeared. Ron several times gave interviews where he was angry that LE was asking questions about BEFORE Haleigh disappeared.
IMO, Junior was with GGma Sykes that day.
"He was asleep. I got there 10 minutes after we noticed she was gone. I had Junior, he said he didn't know anything...said he was asleep," Haleigh's great grandmother, Annette Sykes, told First Coast News on Monday.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=132095
IMO, what she is saying is that she had Junior who was sleeping. Ten minutes after she got there, they noticed that Haleigh had died.
I disagree. She says, "I got there...", not "We got there...", and why would Jr. say he didn't know anything about something that happened somewhere he was not? Is this something he just volunteered out of the blue, or was he asked by AS? Why would AS ask him if he was with her, IMO, that would imply he knows just as much about what happened as she does.
But let's say you are correct, and Jr. had spent the night with his GGMa, so what? Why would that be something to lie about? If anything, that would make the 'taken' story easier to believe, if Jr. wasn't even there. It would also make it that much easier to lie about Haleigh being in another room than right there with Misty, because then, no matter how much Jr. was questioned, how would he know where Haleigh was sleeping that night when he wasn't even there? It also gets rid of the questions about why was Haleigh taken instead of Jr. and why was Jr. not taken also.
Then you have the mad dash to GGma Sykes alledgedly to get Haleigh the clothes she wanted to wear that day. Even GREAT parents to not make a dash for a certain outfit.
IMO, the mad dash was to pick up Haleigh to take her to school. Junior was left with GGma Sykes so Ron could sleep. They did not want to admit that Ron/Misty were still fighting so started the lies to make everything look great on Sunday night believing that LE would only be interested in the last time Haleigh was seen and not leading up to that night.
I don't know where the "Even GREAT parents do not make a dash for a certain outfit." comes from. When my kids were little, I once drove 30 miles round-trip on a whim to go to McD's and get them saus. biscuits and hashbrowns for a special breakfast treat for when they woke up. However, I do agree GREAT parents do not go screeching at an unsafe speed into a crowd of kids waiting at a busstop.
Having a child stay at a grandparent's house overnight does not equal adults are fighting and the kids are in the way. Kids stay at grandparent's houses a lot just because there is mutual affection and the two or more want to spend time together.
As far as any of them not thinking they would be questioned about events BEFORE Haleigh went missing, and Ron being angry about being questioned about BEFORE Haleigh went missing, my assumption is if someone is going to make up a story about some unsub coming in and taking a sleeping child from her bed, part of the story would need to include how an unsub would even know a child was in that home asleep in the bed, which would lead to 'what was going on before this child was taken?' and also leads me back full circle to my original point. An unsub coming in, IMO, would expect this child they have some knowledge of (as I don't believe someone would just randomly break into homes in the middle of the night until they found one containing a child to kidnap) to be asleep alone in their own room, and finding the child asleep feet away from an (almost) adult and another child, would more than likely either wait for a better snatch opportunity or in some way restrain the others in the room, therefore, if that is the story a person was going to go with, it just seems to me like they would include in the story the child was in another room, unless they knew they wouldn't get away with that detail.
