I am a grandmother. I would lay down my life for my grandson in a second. If my daughter ever did anything to him I would report her myself. I would never ever cover for her if she took my grandchild’s life, whether inadvertently or not. It seemed as if George and Cindy loved Caylee. How could it be that 3 people who by all that is human, not love this little girl enough to want justice for her by covering her murder? I don’t buy it. Just because they let their daughter get away with taking money, etc. I can’t make that leap to murder cover-up. I raised a defiant bi-polar child and to outsiders it may have “looked” like we “let” her get away with defying us but trust me, it was not for lack of trying. I don’t like it when people judge and they just haven’t walked in one’s footsteps. They haven’t lived in the house and seen the day to day. I can understand it, but I don’t think it is fair.
I judge Cindy and George on what they do on the record...on the street, in front of the media, on the witness stand. They don’t stand up too well in any of those places IMO. They lie, they perjure, they obstruct for the “love” of their daughter who might benefit by just once paying for what she does.
Neither you nor I know what the Anthony Clan does behind their closed doors and to give them some benefit of the doubt that they behave better or differently in private than they do in public is IMO absurd. IMO they have shown a veneer of love for Caylee that hasn’t really been followed up by any expression of REAL love for her. Not by their actions regarding the murder, the investigation, or the trial.
Caylee had no family member in that courtroom representing her. She had no one but us strangers and the State of Florida to represent her. It doesn’t get sadder than that.
I had a troubled daughter for a number of years, too and had to deal with giving her “tough love.” It wasn’t easy on me in the least...especially having to send her 1000 miles away to live with her father because when she was a teen I could not handle her at all. It hurt me. But due to that move she turned out really well and my pain was worth it.
IF ONLY Cindy had ever made that sort of gesture to benefit Casey rather than to make lame excuses and cover up her bad behaviors we might not have a dead Caylee to talk about today.