Originally Posted by
Kentjbkent
These pictures absolutely make my chest ache and burn! And then the anger sets in......
I will NEVER understand how CA and GA could allow KC to leave ANY night with this precious baby, not knowing for sure where she would be sleeping, nor when she would be coming back home!!!! I don't CARE how old KC was...she was living in her PARENTS home, Caylee was THEIR grandchild, and they had an OBLIGATION to make sure she was happy, healthy and safe!! I will NEVER accept the excuse that their hands were tied and they had NO options!!
If I was in their position, I sure know what I WOULD do....WHATEVER it took....WHATEVER it cost!!
Sorry for the rant...
Casey was a 22-year-old adult with custody. IF Cindy had called LE, LE would have helped Casey and Caylee leave, if that is what Casey wanted to do, NOT force Casey to stay in the Anthony house or to leave Caylee behind. The Anthony's had no grounds to keep Caylee. RC, Haleigh C.'s dad, still has custody of Haleigh's brother despite Ron's history brushes with the law over drugs, restraining orders from in-laws and exes and sleeping with a teenager. No way would Family Services have forced Casey to give Caylee to her parents. Stealing money from family is not grounds to take away custody.
If I were in Cindy's and George's shoes and my daughter took her child after a fight, I'd think she was holed up with some man. Casey's behavior before she left with Caylee supported that. I would not think my daughter killed her baby.
Casey had been "working" until 3:30 a.m. EVERY Friday night after the last week in May. Casey, her hair and her clothes HAD to have reeked of cigarettes and booze after Fusian nights. Cell phone records show she was texting and talking EVERY moment she wasn't "working". It was obvious there was a MAN in Casey's life somewhere. If there were signs of a new lovesick man in my pretty daughter's life, I'd see his place as somewhere my daughter would eagerly run after I'd lost it.
Cindy was hanging on by a thread and was probably grateful that Casey was still calling after the June 15 fight. If she got LE involved and that made Casey mad, NOTHING and nobody could force Casey to ever have contact wtih her family again. If Cindy waited and sucked it up, there was a good chance whoever Casey was living with was going to get sick of supporting her. There was a good chance Casey would miss having a babysitter at her beck and call. If Cindy didn't anger Casey further, life on her own would either be the making of Casey or send her straight back home with her tail tucked between her legs (and hopefully more grateful and respectful).
Cindy's mother, Shirley was telling Cindy in her e-mails to get on with her life. Nobody could have suspected Casey would kill Caylee at the first opportunity after the "fight".
Unfortunately, in the U.S. children are considered the property of their biological parents. Casey was free to take Caylee out of her parent's home whenever she wanted. A big fight where Cindy tried to choke Casey wouldn't have helped Cindy keep Caylee in the house. The law was on Casey's side. "We had a fight. Mom choked me. I've got to get my baby out of here." Not only would LE had helped Casey leave with Caylee, Casey could have had Cindy arrested for assault IF there was a single mark on Casey.
jmo