Posted on 01/31/2009 2:00:36 PM PST by Daniel T. Zanoza
It is a tragic story, but it's one we are growing accustomed to with the devaluation of the lives of children. Allegedly, sometime around mid-June of 2008, a Florida woman's two year old toddler went missing. Besides the obvious fact, the only problem was this child's mother failed to tell authorities her child was gone and she didn't know where little Caylee Anthony was. About a month later, Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of the missing toddler, finally made a police report, stating the child hadn't been seen for over four weeks.
Casey Anthony, the mother of the missing two year old, then laid out a litany of lies to the authorities which led police and volunteers on a wild goose chase of staggering proportions. The mother was charged with child neglect and lying to the police before it became obvious little Caylee was the victim of foul play. It was one of those depressing stories that seems to be common place in a society which, in all too many cases, sees children as disposable commodities, actual possessions of parents who sadly do with them what they wish. This neglect takes on all forms, from simple neglect to what apparently took place in the Caylee Anthony case, the removal of a child who simply got in the way of a parent's pursuit of a certain lifestyle which had little place for a child within it.
Later in the year, the lifeless decayed body of the ultimate innocent was found mere blocks away from the mother's home and what may have been a case of abduction quickly transformed into a nightmarish scenario of murder, greed and self-absorption.
However, some amazing things have transpired since Casey Anthony was charged with the murder of her daughter...
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Great article. You’ve asked the questions a lot of us have been wondering about.
Menendez brothers - not Mendoza.
Ashamed to admit I had been one member of the Nancy Grace and Greta VS audience...hoping for a miracle... until the poor child’s remains were found. The wheels of justice move slowly and we are lured by our own intuition/speculations and the hyped promises of “breaking new evidence”.
Truth is stranger and more horrific than fiction.
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