borndem
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It's always good to blame the man. It works!!
Nobody wants to accept that a young attractive mother would do something like intentionally murder and dispose of her own child.
It's much more acceptable for people to project the guilt onto George Anthony and think he had something to do with Caylee's demise and/or disposal. Even though there is ZERO evidence of these things.
The history of the court system shows we as a society try to explain away and excuse females from their criminal behavior by blaming the men in their lives like a lover/husband/father etc. This is especially true if they're attractive and look harmless. It's nothing new. KC's defense was smart to make GA out to be shady and sinister.
My comment here is way behind many postings, but from the beginning of this case, I immediately thought of the Susan Smith case in South Carolina where mother Susan was convicted of murdering her and her estranged husband's two young boys (a 14 mo. old, and a 3 yr. old) by leaving them in her car which she let coast into a lake, thereby drowning them. She cooked up quite a kidnapping story, pleaded along with her husband on TV for the kidnappers to return their sons, yadda, yadda, yadda. She had been "carrying on" (as we say here in the South) with -- you guessed it -- another man who had said he didn't want children, etc., etc., etc. So instead of just leaving town with the guy, and deserting her husband & boys, she decided to kill them. Why????
http://bogbuster2.blogspot.com/2008/11/infamous-murders-susan-smith.html
There are many parts of the Anthony situation that echo the Smith case.