Report: Misty Croslin took 'wrong turn,' Haleigh's grandmother says

Orlando Sentinel

The grandmother of missing Haleigh Cummings of Putnam County said the girl's baby sitter took a 'wrong turn' days before the disappearance, a Web site is reporting.

Haleigh vanished from her father's trailer in rural Satsuma a year ago this week while his father's then-girlfriend, Misty Croslin, was baby sitting. Croslin also was watching Haleigh's younger brother.

Teresa Neves, Haleigh's paternal grandmother, said Croslin was a loving caregiver to both children until just before the disappearance, according to The Gainesville Sun.

"I feel that somewhere in those two or three days before Haleigh went missing, she took a wrong turn in life, and that brought her to where she is today," Neves told The Gainesville Sun.

Croslin and Cummings are in jail facing drug-trafficking charges. No one has been charged in Haleigh's disappearance. Authorities have said Croslin has not said everything she knows about the evening Haleigh, then 5, vanished.