Oh my God I could rant about it for days. Forgive me for this ramble, I'm kind of exhausted.
I've talked about it with my mom and ehhh.... ok, I get that there was no hard evidence. But fuck, they make it sound like there's absolutely nothing there to convict her on! She waited a month to report Caylee missing, got a CELEBRATORY TATTOO when she did, she lies and changes her story every two seconds, shows absolutely no legitimate grief over her baby's death and there are searches of neck breaking on their computer. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Hell, she should serve a couple of decades just based on her parenting if you ask me. Let's say she didn't actually kill Caylee. Let's say she drowned. Why make it look like a murder? Because if it was an accident, an investigation would show what a sick fuck of a negligent mom she was. And why wait a month to report it if it was? She is so crazy I can't even.
I've heard some people say that different folks deal with grief in different ways. Cool. I get that. But she was fucking celebrating when Caylee went missing. Doesn't that tell people something?
UGH I KNOW. This is super local to us (Orlando's an hour and a half away and it's ALL OVER MY NEWS) so I've been really attached to this since the very beginning.
I guess the problem was the prosecution didn't try hard enough to push other charges besides just first degree murder. They wanted her to be a murderer and didn't try hard enough to at least try to get the jury to believe she did it by accident, or something. They didn't push lesser murder charges hard enough and it came back to bite them in the end. :|
What bothers me is that she got away with this and no one will ever know the truth. Did she drown, was she suffocated, what? What's with the duct tape and the searches for chloroform? We'll never know. She got away with all her ridiculous lies and that poor baby will never have justice :( I was so shocked when I watched the verdict live I started shaking. I mean, I'm glad our justice system works but... it's hardly justice, really.
Yeah, you can't really blame the jury since their job was to decide re: hard evidence and there wasn't enough. But that makes me think the justice system is so flawed, because WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO CONVICT SOMEONE? I haven't been watching that closely, but like, weren't there stickers on Caylee's duct tape that were found in Casey's house? And Casey's friends testified that she'd constantly say how much she hated her daughter?
The main thing that gets to me is how beautiful of a baby Caylee was. How can a mother say those things about their baby? How can a mother hurt their child? Don't mothers, the second they first hold their child, make a promise to never hurt them? I don't get how anyone can hate their child enough to want them dead. It makes me so sick. I just don't get it.
The biggest bitch move she pulled was bringing her family drama into the mess. Yeah, it's awful if your parents mistreated you. But shouldn't that inspire you to step up to your own kid and not repeat their issues, to give your child the life you didn't have?
If for some messed up reason you *do* hate your kid so much, then give it up! She claims her parents wouldn't let her adopt Caylee out. It wasn't her parent's choice, though. She was the mother and it was her decision first and foremost. If she wanted to give Caylee up, she could have totally done so. Nobody else had any real rights.
Just the fact that all of this could have been avoided but Casey was so damn negligent and selfish. I can't.
Couldn't agree more that the prosecution should have brought up more charges. She should have been nailed for something other than perjury at the end of it all.
There's so much wrong with her and the situation I can't even stand it. If she didn't want her daughter, she could have given her to her grandparents, I mean, they were already practically raising her anyway. (And they have such a gorgeous house and had so many top of the line things for her, they weren't like too poor to take care of her or anything). I mean if I wanted to give my kid up and my mother wouldn't let me, I would say, fine, you take her.
How does Casey go home now to the family she totally sold out? How do they deal with the fact that she called her father and brother child molestors? Their whole family got torn apart (although if her father and brother really are that horrible then I don't have too much sympathy). There are just too many lies and people getting blamed and all that shit.
I don't think they were able to prove that the heart shaped sticker was like the ones they found in the house, but it seems unlikely to me that a sticker would just get up and wander away from the other garbage in the area and plop itself onto her mouth.
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I've talked about it with my mom and ehhh.... ok, I get that there was no hard evidence. But fuck, they make it sound like there's absolutely nothing there to convict her on! She waited a month to report Caylee missing, got a CELEBRATORY TATTOO when she did, she lies and changes her story every two seconds, shows absolutely no legitimate grief over her baby's death and there are searches of neck breaking on their computer. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Hell, she should serve a couple of decades just based on her parenting if you ask me. Let's say she didn't actually kill Caylee. Let's say she drowned. Why make it look like a murder? Because if it was an accident, an investigation would show what a sick fuck of a negligent mom she was. And why wait a month to report it if it was? She is so crazy I can't even.
I've heard some people say that different folks deal with grief in different ways. Cool. I get that. But she was fucking celebrating when Caylee went missing. Doesn't that tell people something?
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I guess the problem was the prosecution didn't try hard enough to push other charges besides just first degree murder. They wanted her to be a murderer and didn't try hard enough to at least try to get the jury to believe she did it by accident, or something. They didn't push lesser murder charges hard enough and it came back to bite them in the end. :|
What bothers me is that she got away with this and no one will ever know the truth. Did she drown, was she suffocated, what? What's with the duct tape and the searches for chloroform? We'll never know. She got away with all her ridiculous lies and that poor baby will never have justice :( I was so shocked when I watched the verdict live I started shaking. I mean, I'm glad our justice system works but... it's hardly justice, really.
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The main thing that gets to me is how beautiful of a baby Caylee was. How can a mother say those things about their baby? How can a mother hurt their child? Don't mothers, the second they first hold their child, make a promise to never hurt them? I don't get how anyone can hate their child enough to want them dead. It makes me so sick. I just don't get it.
The biggest bitch move she pulled was bringing her family drama into the mess. Yeah, it's awful if your parents mistreated you. But shouldn't that inspire you to step up to your own kid and not repeat their issues, to give your child the life you didn't have?
If for some messed up reason you *do* hate your kid so much, then give it up! She claims her parents wouldn't let her adopt Caylee out. It wasn't her parent's choice, though. She was the mother and it was her decision first and foremost. If she wanted to give Caylee up, she could have totally done so. Nobody else had any real rights.
Just the fact that all of this could have been avoided but Casey was so damn negligent and selfish. I can't.
Couldn't agree more that the prosecution should have brought up more charges. She should have been nailed for something other than perjury at the end of it all.
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How does Casey go home now to the family she totally sold out? How do they deal with the fact that she called her father and brother child molestors? Their whole family got torn apart (although if her father and brother really are that horrible then I don't have too much sympathy). There are just too many lies and people getting blamed and all that shit.
I don't think they were able to prove that the heart shaped sticker was like the ones they found in the house, but it seems unlikely to me that a sticker would just get up and wander away from the other garbage in the area and plop itself onto her mouth.