Oct 15 2008
An American Tragedy
I don’t like to deviate much on this blog. It’s for Hunter and it’s meant to chronicle our existence and survival through this deployment. Sometimes, though, I just have to get my two cents in on something that really gets to me.
So, yesterday……they FINALLY indicted Casey Anthony for 1st Degree Murder of her precious daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. She was indicted on seven charges with the murder charge being the most serious. Fittingly, there was no bond set for this mom/monster–”momster” and she can finally sit in a cell with no media attention and no adoring mother doting on her and no more six hour visits with Jose Baez! Baez, her own attorney used the words “Public Enemy Number One” and that’s probably the most intelligent thing I have heard him say!
The Grand Jury proceedings apparently held much more evidence than has been released to the public. Casey’s father, George Anthony testified for over an hour. Apparently, he testified to the smell from the trunk of the Pontiac Casey was driving and to the semi-physical altercation that occurred between he and his daughter when he needed to retrieve something from the trunk. Several other Law Enforcement Officers testified and some scientific types explained DNA testings and chloroform levels, etc. After only 30 minutes, the Grand Jury returned the indictment. In Florida, Grand Jury proceedings are kept secret so we can only wonder what evidence that they must have seen that was so compelling.
I generally am not sympathetic to parents whose children have done heinous things because it seems for the most part they had their hands in it by the way they raised the child. That’s the case here, except for George Anthony. I would imagine somewhere along the path of life he realized what he was dealing with in Cindy. He probably considered his options and realized that he couldn’t leave her because if he did the only ‘normal’ parent in the home would be gone. So he was in a Catch 22, leave and let his disdain and non-approval be known but perhaps loose influence……or stay and do what he could do from ‘the inside’. Either way was a loosing battle and the poor weary soldier had to go to the battlefront yesterday against his own daughter. For that, I do feel sympathy. Any parent would be heart-wrenched to have to testify against their own flesh and blood. God Bless you, George–you stood up for Caylee yesterday.
So now, the legal wheels begin to turn. In this case, I am sure justice will be delayed because any shenanigan that can be thought of will be pulled and there will be much ado about their not being a body but in the end…………….Casey Marie Anthony will be convicted of murdering her very own daughter. The Bible warns not to harm a child in several scriptures so even after many, many years in a pretty rough Florida Correctional System she will still face the final of all final judgements.
Rest in Peace Little Caylee……your story is truly an American Tragedy.
