kiki the parrot
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Debs: All her life, Casey has been in a battle royale with Cindy. Permissiveness mixed with condoning of bad behavior, outright covering up of bad behavior, lying to everyone about the causes of the behavior, blaming others for what has happened to Casey....patterns we still see today in Cindy. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Cindy offers up the stalwart defense of her daughter as innocent of charges. She ignores the visible proof of her daughter's criminality (the videos showing Casey purchasing items with Amy's stolen checks) as immaterial. All that is important is finding Caylee. No one can offer proof of that now, can they?
The inside has been exposed to the outside. Cindy's job forever has been to protect the inside view from others. Casey has always done everything to thwart that, hasn't she? She hasn't just suddenly begun to act out. She's been doing this for quite awhile. Her friends from school drifted away from her to casual acquaintances, most admitting that Casey has always lied about things. "Normal" people don't keep compulsive liars around. Casey keeps people around her and maximizes what she can get out of them before they withdraw, based on their exposure to her negative behaviors. "Everybody lies, everybody dies"....meaning we're all just like her, so she can justify her behavior. She just believes she's better at it than most.
So her mother calls the police on her, perhaps in an attempt to regain control over Casey. It backfires on Cindy, though. Now she has to actually have the outside in where she didn't really want them. If Casey had just answered her question, told the truth, I do not believe Cindy would have ever EVER said a word. I think she would have covered up with a story about Caylee being adopted and held that over Casey's head for life. I think Casey knew that, too. Faced with that choice, she admits she hasn't seen her daughter, BS'ing after that as to why. She would rather take her chances with the police than Cindy having any more control on her life. As wonky as it is, it proves to be her way out of this diabolical grip.
ITA Actually this first half isn't so much "spin" as truth IMO. The rest the defense might have a shot with except I can't see KC ever coming up off of it and admitting Caylee is dead--without a body. GO TES
YDog: Maybe Caylee did get into the pool by herself and when Casey discovered her unconscious there, she did resucitation and revived Caylee only to find out that the child was in a vegatative state due to brain damage and would never be normal again. She discovered this after lying her on the ground in the backyard to perform mouth to mouth. Finally realizing the child would never be the same again, in a distraught state, she euthanized her and placed her in the trunk of the car.
As horrific, and heartbreaking, as this thought is I've played this and similar scenarios out in my own mind, ie what if KC just thought Caylee was beyond hope of revival; or knew Caylee was beyond hope of revival; or as you suggest, believed Caylee was beyond hope of being not merely resuscitated but restored to her active, bright, former self. As unbearable as this thought is, you are (sadly) not the only one who has considered it. But only briefly, as it makes me feel panic and near hysteria, seriously, to think of discovering any child in this lifeless or unresponsive condition. And if the child was never to be the same, no one discovering the child--especially an adult who felt herself responsible--could ever be the same. JMO
The inside has been exposed to the outside. Cindy's job forever has been to protect the inside view from others. Casey has always done everything to thwart that, hasn't she? She hasn't just suddenly begun to act out. She's been doing this for quite awhile. Her friends from school drifted away from her to casual acquaintances, most admitting that Casey has always lied about things. "Normal" people don't keep compulsive liars around. Casey keeps people around her and maximizes what she can get out of them before they withdraw, based on their exposure to her negative behaviors. "Everybody lies, everybody dies"....meaning we're all just like her, so she can justify her behavior. She just believes she's better at it than most.
So her mother calls the police on her, perhaps in an attempt to regain control over Casey. It backfires on Cindy, though. Now she has to actually have the outside in where she didn't really want them. If Casey had just answered her question, told the truth, I do not believe Cindy would have ever EVER said a word. I think she would have covered up with a story about Caylee being adopted and held that over Casey's head for life. I think Casey knew that, too. Faced with that choice, she admits she hasn't seen her daughter, BS'ing after that as to why. She would rather take her chances with the police than Cindy having any more control on her life. As wonky as it is, it proves to be her way out of this diabolical grip.
ITA Actually this first half isn't so much "spin" as truth IMO. The rest the defense might have a shot with except I can't see KC ever coming up off of it and admitting Caylee is dead--without a body. GO TES
YDog: Maybe Caylee did get into the pool by herself and when Casey discovered her unconscious there, she did resucitation and revived Caylee only to find out that the child was in a vegatative state due to brain damage and would never be normal again. She discovered this after lying her on the ground in the backyard to perform mouth to mouth. Finally realizing the child would never be the same again, in a distraught state, she euthanized her and placed her in the trunk of the car.
As horrific, and heartbreaking, as this thought is I've played this and similar scenarios out in my own mind, ie what if KC just thought Caylee was beyond hope of revival; or knew Caylee was beyond hope of revival; or as you suggest, believed Caylee was beyond hope of being not merely resuscitated but restored to her active, bright, former self. As unbearable as this thought is, you are (sadly) not the only one who has considered it. But only briefly, as it makes me feel panic and near hysteria, seriously, to think of discovering any child in this lifeless or unresponsive condition. And if the child was never to be the same, no one discovering the child--especially an adult who felt herself responsible--could ever be the same. JMO