In My opinion having bad parents has nothing to do with what she did. She is totally accountable for her deeds !!!
I was raised in a hellish environment and have never thought of or kiled anyone
I never said they are totally to blame, but I do think THEY put all of their self worth into CASEY, and that's why they continue to defend her. If she's innocent, in their minds, they did a good job raising her and are the perfect parents. If she's guilty, in their minds, then they were not good parents and raised a monster.
Btw, constantly enabling children, not making them suffer any consequences, doing ridiculous things like going up to a school and arguing with the teacher about grades the kid earned, stuff like that is going to ensure your kid is self centered, self absorbed and with a sense of entitlement that is just crazy. Look at Casey. She thought she could go through life stealing money from other people instead of working, using people and tossing them aside when they didn't benefit her anymore, and lying through her teeth about everything and everyone would just keep believing her, even those in authority. She has no respect for anyone but herself. Caylee was just a mistake and a pawn in the game with Cindy, not a precious child to be treasured and loved. And where did this all of this attitude come from? Her enabling parents who also lied and covered up every deed, even the murder of their own granddaughter, all for someone who would just as soon kill them and move on to a beautiful life without them.
So not every child who had a hellish childhood turns out to be a murderer, but I don't see a hellish childhood here. I see one of getting her way at every turn, and it was only when Caylee entered the picture that she started suffering (in her mind it was suffering) such extreme jealousy at that baby taking her parents full and undivided attention away from her that she went to the extreme of murdering her. And look now, she's got her parents full and undivided attention again and again. The only suffering she's ever had is when she fell on her face and busted a lip and broke a tooth.
At least half of the responsibility for what happened to Caylee here lies directly on the heads of Casey's parents. Casey and Caylee lived with them, and yet it took thirty one days for them to finally start worrying about Caylee? (And IMO, Casey was fully dependant on them, so that means she and the baby were their responsibility. Until Casey got a job, paid her own taxes, and lived in her own place, they had every right to wonder where Casey and Caylee were and who she was with). I have never understood that. They've tampered with evidence, lied over and over again, changed stories, bashed innocent people left and right including the man who found Caylee and an entire organization devoted to finding children dead or alive (plus TM himself to his face), and basically made this horrendous murder more of a warfare between them and the rest of the planet. Gee, is it a surprise their daughter turned out so horribly when even after she murders their grandchild they're willing to keep enabling her this much?
And I didn't have the greatest childhood either, but I had parents who taught me morals, ethics, and a sense of responsibility, maybe not in the greatest way, but they did not enable me at every step and not expect me to take responsibility for myself and my actions. Casey thinks they will always clean up her messes and she doesn't have to be responsible for anything, that's how much they've enabled her.
Sorry about the rant, but in this case, the parents of Casey are very much so responsible for what happened to Caylee. The only thing they didn't do is the evil act itself and the dumping of the body afterwards. All IMO.
