Posted on 07/08/2011 2:31:45 PM PDT by ladyellen
The trial and acquittal of Casey Anthony has spawned a slew of proposed laws named after her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, as lawmakers and their constituents try to extract some measure of reform out of a case that ended -- for many onlookers -- with frustration.
The state proposals, which sprung up after an Oklahoma woman started an online petition drive Tuesday, would generally make it a felony for a parent not to report the death or disappearance of his or her child in a certain period of time.
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There is, in the State of Oregon, a woman in prison whose daughter disappeared and the woman never reported it nor will she say what happened to her daughter. Prosecutors went after her, she was convicted, and is now serving time. [The suspicion is she murdered her daughter.]
Unfortunately, I can’t remember of what she was convicted.
Let’s make it mandatory to call the government every night and tell them how are whole day went. For confessions of capital crimes press #3.
I have been thinking about this case and wondering if “child abandonment” or a variation thereof might fit.
The last time anyone knew of Caylee’s situation, she was with Casey but not with the family, as I understand it. When in phone contacts Cindy would ask about Caylee, Casey would offer some answer to molify her but certainly did not tell her Caylee was “gone”. Eventually, it came out after 31 days that Caylee was no longer with Casey.
If you boil it all down, to me Casey was the legally responsible adult who had custodial care of Caylee at the time of Caylee’s disappearance. We know she didn’t report her missing. We know she partied and her friends began to notice that Caylee was no longer a part of the scene, as from time to time she was before. We know she lied repeatedly to them and later to her parents and police.
We know she refused ever to account for Caylee’s whereabouts, for truth never came from her, only lies.
We know eventually Caylee was found dead and greatly decomposed.
If you couldn’t call this child abandonment of Caylee by Casey, what would qualify as child abandonment?
My daughter thinks the verdict was all about sensationalism and book deals for the jurists. A guilty verdict was expected and wouldn’t have generated the shock that a not guilty verdict did. Follow the money. If that is so, it is shameful what our courts have become.
Don’t they have negligent homicide already? Reckless endangerment that resulted in homicide?
Mary Winkler is another one that comes to mind. Except she got her kids back and her in laws’ money. Now she is living high off the hog, guilty as sin but free as a bird just like Casey will do.
You can’t pass a law that will keep prosecutors from inflating charges to something they can’t prove. I have seen that as a juror and so has my wife. It is evil to have to vote “not guilty” for someone who is guilty as sin but was charged with way more than the prosecution can prove. In this system the prosecution has to prove its case. If the perp is charged with more than there is evidence to show then the perp will walk.
These trials jump out of gear with the media coverage. No TV and only a pool representative from the written media allowed the court room. After that....pound sand!
“The end result of this law will be concientious parents overwhelming the police system . . .”
Bingo. Everything you said.
Plus—Who determines when the child *actually* went missing? If one could report the precise time the child actually went missing, the odds are that the child wouldn’t go missing in the first place. Or does the law imply that *realization of missing* starts the clock? How in hell does this law get enforced?
BOR, after redeeming himself slightly, went right back to Baxter-mode on this one.
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