JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The mother of the Florida teen who was supposed to be watching Haleigh Cummings the night she disappeared has doubts her daughter was there the entire time.
Lisa Croslin says she believes her son's account that no one appeared to be at the Cummings trailer home when he went there looking for his sister, Misty Croslin, the night 5-year-old Haleigh vanished in February, Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday. Misty Croslin, 17, has maintained she was at the residence through the night with Haleigh and a second child, awaking about 3 a.m. to find the girl gone.
"I believe my son," said Lisa Croslin, who has since married Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings. "I know this will kill Misty when she hears it."
Hank "Tommy" Croslin Jr., 23, has told detectives he went to the Satsuma mobile home after Cummings called and asked him to check on the babysitter's whereabouts.
Cummings' attorney said his client had called Croslin just to see if Misty was at Croslin's home and did not ask Croslin to go to Cummings' trailer.
