Posted on 07/06/2011 3:53:51 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBSMiami.com) – The outrage over the not guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony trial has reached the Florida Legislature.
Wednesday, Representative Bill Hager, R-Boca Raton, introduced what is being called, “Caylee’s Law,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.
The law would make it a felony for a parent or legal guardian to fail to timely report a missing child in cases where the parent knew or should have known that the child was possibly in danger, the Sentinel reported.
Rep. Hager said that the law will “ensure that parents are held responsible for their actions.” He continued, “It will also assure that we put justice on the side of those among us who are most vulnerable. And finally, it will put an end to the kind of irresponsible and outrageous behavior we observed with Caylee’s mother.”
I will be the first or second to say this is a great idea!
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Now it starts!
It sounds like a long overdue law. Hope it passes, and it should with the outrage over yesterday’s verdict.
I agree.
But what "good mother" fails to report their child missing???? How stupid can people be.
And she should have been charged with negligence!!!!
Certainly a needed law. Also, it would be good to permanently ban jurors such as these from ever serving on a jury again. They obviously aren’t competent enough to serve.
Good common sense law.
We don’t need new laws. We need jurors that don’t believe that CSI is real.
This is beyond stupid.
So now someone is going to control and judge how long parents can “reasonably” determine their child is in danger, etc.?
Talk about feeling like you are under the government’s thumb on a daily basis. It’s none of their freaking business. They are not their kids. Now, if we were losing kids like this to the tune of 100,000 a year, there may be some minimal law to...No. There is no excuse for the government to get involved here.
This is a gross “busibody” law. Butt the hell out of people’s lives and let them raise their own kids.
Yep. And she was such a GOOD mother, she never contributed one thin dime to the welfare of her child.
Fixing the jury selection process would fix a lot of other problems in our legal system.
This law is just another bandaid and I’m not too crazy about passing new laws in direct response to outrageous crime stories.
But isn’t this crap behavior covered under neglect or other existing laws? How does a new law help? Didn’t the prosecution go for murder and not any lesser charges so this never came up?
RobRoy, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I am sure there are laws already existing that could have been used but prosecutor wanted the grab gold ring. Laws written in response to events like this have been often poorly written and overturned by courts. Phrases like “or should have known” will not stand in court.
Now THAT is a good law.
Bingo
I was thrown out of a jury pool in my younger years after a defense lawyer asked if I had a high school diploma
end the practice of cherry picking jurors to dumb down jurys
Yep...
Knee-jerk legislation is a bad idea.
Emotion-driven, tear-jerker legislation is a bad idea.
Normally it is Demo-Commies who do that. There is no excuse for someone with an ‘R’ next to their name, who should know better, following suit.
When I read the headline I felt fear but after reading the story I gotta say, this sounds like a good idea.
Here in Houston we have a whacked out mom that drowns her 5 kids in a bathtub, and she gets SYMPATHY.
So I have trouble understanding why everyone is so bloodthirsty for this mom...after all, she only killed one person.
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