Missing Haleigh Cummings Dad-Weds Teenage Girlfriend

Missing Haleigh Cummings Dad-Weds Teenage Girlfriend despite the fact that his daughter is still missing.

Ronald Cummings, the father of missing child Haleigh Cummings’ married his 17 year old girlfriend, who was the last one known to have seen the child alive.

Both Cummings and Croslin passed their polygraph test.

Little Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings, 5, has been missing for more than a month.
Here’s the story…last Sunday Ronald Cummings asked his teenage girlfriend, Misty Croslin, for her hand in marriage at a local Chili’s restaurant. With several family members, Cummings got down on one knee, asked Croslin to marry him and gave her Haleigh’s grandmother’s diamond ring.

Misty is only 17 years old and in the state of Florida, both parents have to give consent so the two could be married.

Thursday, March 12th, 2008, the pair got married, after the three day waiting period required by Florida law.

Croslin, who was totally excited earlier in the week after the engagement, WJXT-TV that while she knows there will be critics of the marriage and the timing, “everything is still about Haleigh and she wanted to be together as a family, just as Haleigh would have wanted. Everybody is probably going to take this marriage thing the wrong way. This is what Haleigh wanted. She has always talked about it, and even if she’s not with us, she is still with us.”

Well, I don’t know about you, Baby Boomers…but if my child was missing for over a month, marriage would be the very last thing on my mind. Plus, saying it is what little Haleigh would want, just doesn’t cut it in my book.

Misty told police she tucked Haleigh and her 4 year old brother into bed about 8 p.m. February 9 in their Satsuma, Florida, home. She said she went to sleep herself about 10 p.m. but woke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a back door propped open by bricks.

Police are still actively searching for the girl, with a new search happening this week, and investigators Wednesday took the back door that was found propped open.

In the middle of the search for the girl, the newlyweds will fly to New York Thursday night for their honeymoon and an exclusive appearance on the Today show.

Haleigh’s grandmother, Teresa Neves, also acknowledged the timing might seem “unusual.”

“Well, it is unusual for some onlookers, but those people didn’t live with my two grandchildren,” Neves told Nancy Grace. “My grandchildren, both Haleigh and Junior, have very often said that they would love for their daddy to marry Misty and that they wanted Misty to be their mommy. And so I feel like they are just trying to fulfill a wish for Haleigh so that when she comes home she will have that extra happiness to come home to.”

“It’s an event that Haleigh really should be at, but when she comes home, we’ll have a great big wedding so she can be the flower girl and see it all again,” the grandmother said.

According the the biological mother of Haleigh, there is more going on then meets the eye in the Cumming household…whispers of child abuse with the father. Is a custody case in the winds?

It is a fact that a 17 year old can not keep watch over children when one child has already disappeared. For those of you who think that is not the case, the evidence is perfectly clear that children do not need to be taking care of children.

What is the rush to marry? Trying to clear a 17 year olds reputation? Well. that is a little too late since she was already living with Ronald Cummings before the fact. Could it be something more sinister? Could it be that a husband and wife do not have to testify against each other?

The main question is…Where is little Haleigh?

In the mean while, Ronald and the new Misty Cummings are being flown around for television interviews and going on honeymoons…while the rest of the world looks watches and searches for Haleigh Cummings.

Missing Haleigh Cummings Dad-Weds Teenage Girlfriend…but where is little Haleigh Cummings? For more information go to CNN News.