Dad To Misty: 'Tell Truth' About Haleigh

by Wrapitup Tue May 25, 2010 3:31 pm

Hank Croslin Sr. Pleads With Misty Cummings In Jailhouse Calls

POSTED: Friday, May 21, 2010
UPDATED: 6:35 pm EDT May 21, 2010

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- Time and time again in recordings of jailhouse visits released by the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office Friday, Hank Croslin Sr. pleads with his daughter Misty Cummings to tell the truth if she knows anything about missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings.

"The idea is that whatever you know, you need to tell," Croslin said.

"Daddy, I have," said Cummings, Haleigh's former stepmother. "It's not my fault they don't listen."

"If we could just find out what happened to Haleigh, man, everybody will be better off," Croslin said.

"People don't understand," a tearful Cummings said. "If I knew, I would tell. I don't know anything else. I told them everything I know."

Video: Misty, Dad Talk At Jail
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In the recordings, Cummings complains to her father that she's bored, can't sleep at night and doesn't like to look out the window because she gets depressed.

"This is ain't punishment," she told him. "Where you get to just sit around and do nothing, that's not punishment. Punishment is where they have you working, doing things in the jail, making you a slave. That's punishing. I wish they'd make me come and clean and do stuff. I'm serious."

Cummings also told her father she's hoping to be offered a deal from attorneys for her eight drug trafficking charges, but her father told her he doesn't think a deal is likely.

Cummings later complained that she can't see her brother Hank Croslin Jr., who is also being held at the same jail on similar charges.

"I don't know why they won't let me see my brother in here," she said.

"(Hank) 'Tommy' (Croslin Jr.) is mad at you for bring his name up in that (expletive)," Croslin Sr. said. "He said he didn't know nothing about it. He wasn't there, and he doesn't know why you said that about him."

"Then don't be holding nothing back from nobody," Croslin Sr. added. "Get it out there. Let it out, man. Tell the truth."

"I swear on everything, I've told the truth dad," Cummings said. "There's nothing else. I don't know. And that's the truth, you know?"

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