SATSUMA, Fla. -- Thursday was a particularly emotional day for family members of missing Satsuma 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings as the child's loved ones went back inside the house where the girl and her father lived.
Last week, police took down their crime scene tape and said family was allowed inside the Cummings' home. At the time, many family members couldn't bring themselves to go inside. On Thursday, Haleigh's great-grandmother, Annette Sykes, stepped inside to tidy up the home before TV cameras are allowed to enter.
Signs of Haleigh could be seen outside the home -- her pink and blue bike and other little toys. Inside, Sykes said the rooms once filled with the girl's laughter are now filled with sorrow.
"There's just Haleigh all over the house … there are toys and everything. Her pictures are on the walls and her clothes are there, the toys are there, even on the porch and in the yard. Everywhere you look, they're there," Sykes said.
She said she has dreaded the day when she would have to step foot inside the home. She went in to help straighten up the home from the way police left it after their search.
"The things that she played with the most are left out there right where they were. Her favorite stuff is there where she had it," Sykes said.
Though a painful task, she said she wants the home to look like the last time she saw Haleigh, at 7 p.m. before the night the child disappeared.
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Reported by: Leslie Coursey
SATSUMA, Fla. -- It's now been 23 days since Haleigh Cummings vanished from her Putnam County home. Her disappearance has left her family emotionally distraught, and now, physically ill.
Teresa Neves, Haleigh's grandmother, says many people in their camp are coming down with colds and the flu. And Wednesday, Haleigh's father, Ronald, and his girlfriend, Misty Croslin, reportedly went to the doctor seeking treatment for anxiety.
Neves say the only thing keeping her son sane these days is his little boy, Junior. "Ronald had all day today with Junior. They went and played and done little boy things," says Neves.
Ronald is also becoming extremely protective of Junior. He no longer wants the 4-year-old's face shown on television. He's worried that if Haleigh could be kidnapped, Junior could too. Neves says, "He was put out there for the world to see and as far as we're concerned, his life is endangered."
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Ronald does not hate the media
- Three weeks later and thousands of tips and still no sign of Haleigh Cummings. She vanished from her Satsuma, Florida trailer in the middle of the night. On Thursday her family cleaned the trailer out saying they're simply too heart-sick to live there after what happened.
Ronald Cummings Great Grandmother Annete Sykes tells us its not as though Ronald hates the media, she says right now he’s just all nerves wondering where his little girl is.
As soon as Ronald Cummings asked us to turn off our cameras we did. Sykes says Ronald didn’t want anyone to see what was going on inside his home. “Put yourself in his place to have to go in the room where his little girl was stolen from…he couldn’t handle it…he just broke down.”
Sykes tells us the home is just about the same way they left it. “There’s just Haleigh all over the house…cleaning her room was the hardest…because she has her toys and everything. Her pictures are hanging all over the wall…and her clothes are there…her toys are there…they’re even on the front porch, they’re on the yard…everywhere you look they’re there.
The big reason Ronald’s Relatives were inside this home is because they wanted to look through and clean it up and get it ready for the media. They say they want to show you how she lived, and how much she was loved.
Sykes says within the next few days she will be willing to take us on a tour of Haleigh’s home.
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My opinions on the case
Almost 4 weeks not a trace
Please DEAR God let Haleigh be found safe
A lot of leads but not much news at all concerning Haleigh Cummings
I'm hoping law enforcement knows more then there telling us.
The longer we wait the less chance of Haleigh being found safe.
I wish the cousin Joe would come foreword and clear his name if he is not involved
I have read a lot about People saying its strange Ronald is moving
I don't think its strange. His little girl vanished and he still has a 4 year old.
I could not stay in the trailer either.
I think the tattoo was a mistake MY OPINION
I think it was wrong for RJ to be on geraldo MY OPINION
Yes,both parents are making mistakes
but I know a lot of us cant put ourselves in there shoes we have never been through this.
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