The person I have a problem with, regarding the Haleigh Cummings case, is the father. I don’t care what anyone says, it is the father’s responsibility to keep his children safe. The courts made a terrible mistake by putting the children in his custody. The mother claims that her notice to appear was sent to some other address and she never got it and in turn they awarded custody of the kids to him. Now if this is true, someone needs to revisit this issue in the courts because there is still one more child in his custody.

It is the father’s responsibility to protect his family. They are the ones who, when they hear even a slight noise in the house at night while everyone is sleeping, go through the house and see if some bad guy got in. All fathers know this. How many fathers heard a noise one night and charged through their dark home looking for something wrong. Ninety-nine percent of the time it’s nothing and they go back to bed. This is every father’s duty as the head of the household.

Now it’s hard to do that if you are working the midnight shift somewhere and you leave some seventeen-year-old kid in charge of your home and children. Any single father knows there are simply many jobs one cannot take when being a single father. You cannot take a nighttime job with young kids. You cannot take a job on a fishing boat where you are gone for weeks at a time. You cannot take an over the road truck driving job. There are many jobs a single father cannot take while being in charge of young children. As soon as the courts gave him custody of two small kids it was his obligation to adapt to this new lifestyle. This is all common sense and something any single dad in America knows.

Now I’ve heard people on camera say that we shouldn’t be mad over the fact that he left his kids with a seventeen-year-old. They say that many people leave their kids with a seventeen-year-old babysitter. That point is such crap and disingenuous. It’s one thing to leave our kids with a seventeen-year-old babysitter that we trust while we go to dinner and a movie. It is a whole other scenario to move a teenager in to play house when you’re a twenty-five-year-old single dad. To move a minor in your home and make like she is your wife and leave your kids with her night after night while you go to work is insane and very bad judgement. I thought it was against the law? Is that not child endangerment?

Now I feel sorry for this guy and that child. I hope to God she is found alive, but I can’t help but think this was his bad judgement that created even the possibility of this happening. Hearing all of these allegations of drugs, guns, cops, arrests, police informant and on and on makes me wonder whether or not the courts need to take another look at this man and the issue of the remaining child in his custody.

C. Rich

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