In fairness to Cindy...hmmm...ok.
In fairness to Cindy...
Why are we granting this "fairness to Cindy" again?
Because I cannot for the life of me figure out any way for there to be "fairness to Cindy" in all of this. One cannot turn a blind eye to what IS, and THAT is about the only way that I could say "in all fairness to Cindy" about ANYTHING to do with this case.
Cindy knows what a dead human body smells like. She had smelled it before that day. That smell CANNOT be confused with any other. She KNEW the car had housed a dead body, but she chose to deny that to herself, perhaps to preserve her own sanity? I don't know. But from that moment of denial, she spun, created and built a city of lies so tall and broad that you cannot even see from one side to the other. She made misleading statements. She with held evidence when it was requested. She tampered with evidence, knowing FULL WELL that there was the stench of death in her daughters car. She refused to co-operate with Eqqusearch and refused to provide an item of Caylee's so the dogs could get her scent. She misrepresented Casey to LE, to the public, and in all likelihood, convinced her own self that her alter reality that she created was in fact the truth...when it could not have been further FROM what WAS the truth. She never made any effort to look for Caylee her own personal self because she knew Caylee was dead. She put 2 and 2 together pretty quickly-death smell in car-no Caylee-Caylee dead-begin the cover-up.
We have heard quite a few instances when Cindy allowed Casey to not only be a spoiled child, but to actually break the law and she, Cindy, would go right behind her and sweep up the mess that her little criminal daughter was making on her way to murdering her daughter. She ignored her daughter's pregnancy for over 7 months-and being a registered nurse, you can just about gurantee that she KNEW she was pregnant.
In fairness to Cindy?
quoting myself because I did not complete my thought and needed to add some additional info...
Add to all I have said the fact that Cindy jumped on the Caylee donations train and is STILL riding it and even made an effort to Trademark poor Caylee's very name-KNOWING full well that her daughter was an habitual liar and that Caylee was the death smell from the car, and any respect that I could have had for her goes out of the window. They religiously maintained the donations "jars" and the website for donations to be collected and the t-shirt sales and bracelet sales to be accomplished. This is not the act of someone who is desperate to find their grandchild, this is the act of someone who is USING the loss of their granchild for personal gain. In addition, let's not foget the Lifetime Movie Deal for what? 1.7 million? Wasn't that the figure?
I understand that Cindy was working to support the ENTIRE family, but something else that I understand about that is she CHOSE to do this. We each make our choices, and she is no exception. She chose to work her butt off and to support her husband a great deal of the time, AND her GROWN daughter and her grown daughter's CHILD. She did not HAVE to do this. Nobody was holding a gun to her head. It was always her own choice to do this. She COULD have made other choices, like kicking her husband out if he was going to continue NOT to work, and seeing to it that Casey learned some measure of responsibility by requiring her to pay something for living there and to contribute to her own child's upkeep. She did not do this-she chose another path, and the blame FOR that path rests sqaurely upon her own shoulders.
Cindy has blamed everyone ELSE coming and going except the one that she knew in her heart of hearts was responsible, and that was her own spawn-Casey. She tried to smear various players in this saga, and to cast the seed of doubt over into someone elses garden besides her own daughter's. She even has blamed the media and the public, claiming that if Caylee was dead it was their/our fault-we were the ones who put her in that casket. NOT Casey's fault-the one who murdered her. Not Cindy's fault-the one who raised the "mother of the year" as she has called Casey. No, it would be OUR fault and the fault of the "maggots" who are the media that her grandchild was dead. In my experience, one who "blames" others like this is the victim in EVERYTHING that happens to them and they are never to blame for anything that comes along. There is always someone else or somewhere else to point the finger towards besides where it belongs pointed, and that is at the SELF.
So, in all fairness to Cindy, I can only look at the truth and the truth is what she has firmly denied from the beginning: Caylee was dead and she did nothing to find her remains because she knew this would lead to Casey being convicted in her death, and THIS would reflect badly upon HER and this was something that she was not willing to have happen. She who had valiantly supported her entire family and worked so hard to provide for everyone and to make sure that they all had a nice home in which to live. There was NO way she was coming out of this denial, as it would lead her to have to look at her own self and her part in it all, and this was something that she would not do.
In fairness to Cindy all I can say is that she should have gotten her daughter some help or gotten some for herself rather than paying Casey's way out and getting her out of all manner of difficulties. She should have MADE her daughter be responsible for her own life and the life of HER child and she should have started on this LONG before Casey was a 22 year old woman. Most parents teach their children some measure of self-sufficiency beginning early in life-allowance/chores, etc are the building blocks to learning and later, if ones grown child must live at home with their children, this same simple concept should be applied on a grander scale: yes, you can live here, BUT you will have to work, you will have to pay your auto insurance, you will have to keep gas in your own vehicle, you will have to pay something toward rent, you will be responsible for buying the things your child needs, you will be responsible for some of the labors in the home...Casey did not have to do ANYTHING remotely like this. She was allowed to do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted and to pay for nothing at all. This was the beginning of her thinking that she could do whatever she wanted and mommy would take care of it...
Guess what Casey? Mommy can't take care of this one. This time, you took someone's LIFE and this time, YOU are going to pay the price BIGTIME...and it is sad, because had you been held accountable your WHOLE life, you may never have arrived at this time.