Ronald Cummings Grandma talks with reporters about Geraldos interview

Reported by: Matt Saffer

SATSUMA, Fla. -- Standing outside the tent her family has been under for the past 14 days, Annette Sykes says she can’t believe what Geraldo Rivera put her grandson through.



“When he opened the door---it was disgusting…to say the least…it was disgusting for anybody to put a man with his child gone like that through what he put him through,” said Sykes.



Geraldo Rivera showed up to Ronald Cummings tent over the weekend to ask him questions about his daughter’s disappearance. While there, he asked if Ronald was a drug user, if he abused women and if he was a police informant.



“They can sling dirt all they want, all that does it take the focus off Haleigh,” said Sykes. She said it took everything she had to hold back during Geraldo’s interview.



“It infuriated me…But me, I would have liked to punch him…and I almost did,” said Sykes.



After only asking a handful of questions, Ronald’s father stepped between the two and told Geraldo the interview was over. In a few minutes, Putnam County Deputies arrived to serve Geraldo with a trespassing notice. The family tells us Geraldo wouldn’t sign it, but also promised to never come back.



“She’s been gone two weeks now and the media slows down a little more everyday you know because it’s getting longer and longer…the longer that she’s gone, I know that it tends not to be a big story to ya’ll but it is to us…and we just have to keep her face on the news…just to keep her there,” said Sykes.



The family tells us Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy personally came by to deliver “No Trespassing” signs to the family. Family members say that was a wonderful sign that the sheriff’s department is doing all it can to keep things calm and keep the focus on finding Haleigh

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