ITA with your post completely.
Mental illness, if she had it, which I don't believe she did, would not in the slightest excuse what she did. Just because you have a mental illness doesn't mean it's okay to murder a baby. You don't have to have a have a mental illness to hate your mother and be jealous of your own baby.
I swear, why some people want to go so far to take responsibility off of Casey is beyond me. She is where she deserves to be for the choices in life she made, and there was no mental illness that shaped her choices or forced her to do anything. The mental illness thing is a cop out, and this girl has had cop outs her whole life. It's obvious she's not mentally unstable, knew what she doing, and is going to pay the price for it. Trying to hide it under a mental disorder is...well, it's something Cindy would do. After all, Casey is perfect and can do no wrong. Please, gag me.
ITA! There's no reason for anyone to look for some elusive reason for Caylee's death. Casey Anthony is solely responsible for the death of Caylee, and she wasn't mentally ill or high on drugs when she murdered her daughter.
Cindy knows this, but she's spent a lifetime smoothing things over and making excuses for her daughter's behavior. Part of a parent's responsibility in raising children is to instill in them a belief in right and wrong and that there's a penalty to pay for wrong-doing. Cindy failed miserably when it came to raising Casey.
Casey knows the difference between right and wrong. When she does something wrong, she knows it and makes up a lie to cover up her wrong doing. Cindy never confronted her on her lies and allowed Casey to suffer a penalty. Instead, Cindy covered for Casey and "made things right" so that Casey wouldn't be punished.
And, that's exactly what Cindy has been doing since July 15, 2008 - trying desperately to find something to mitigate the facts so that Casey won't be punished. Cindy tried to blame innocent people like Jesse and other friends of Casey, and that didn't work.
When there's no escaping the fact that Casey murdered Caylee, Cindy will flounder around seeking a means to mitigate the severity of Casey's horrific crime. She'll excuse Casey's behavior citing mental illness, drugs, or something that makes Casey's crime seem less horrific than the reality.
When Cindy testifies in court this Thursday, I expect she will make an effort to be on her best behavior. I'm sure BC will have coached her. But Cindy doesn't accept the advice of others and believes she knows best, as we've seen with her depositions.
I'm sure that Cindy will try to tell the court that they didn't hear what they thought they heard........that she was only trying to get the police to respond quickly, as if a missing 2-year-old wasn't reason enough.
But there's no getting around the fact that Casey's car smelled like there had been a dead body in it, because in all likelihood, Caylee's dead body was in that car for a period of time. There's been far too many people who've stated that the car reeked of a human decomposition odor for Cindy to now try to say that when she said "it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car", that wasn't a factual statement, but only a statement to get the police to respond quickly.