Poll:Why Do You Think Cindy Is Protecting Casey???

[VicKnit]

I'd like to vote "All of the Above".

 

[ibyoungr]

The image for the Anthony's must be:

Our granddaughter went" MISSING and then found dead"

vs

"our daughter murdered our granddaughter"


then it is a little harder to represent a MISSING CHILDRENS FOUNDATION isn't it??


The are trying to protect their image.

This is GA only job now.

 

[TotallyObsessed]

You know, I don't so much think CA is protecting KC, as CA is protecting CA. After listening to some of the just released interviews, the picture that has been portrayed of CA is one of a total and complete biotch. She evidently rode KC into the dirt. Don't get me wrong....I don't think that is an excuse for what KC did to her child, but boy oh boy...I think a team of psychologists could write an entire case study on that mother-daughter relationship.

 

[zippitydoda]

IMO Cindy’s reason - because Casey is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Maybe Cindy’s position is: maybe she did? maybe she didn’t? But she’s not going to say or do anything now that will assist in convicting Casey. If the State proves her guilt – so be it. She’s not handing Casey over to them on a silver platter.

I am not a super sleuther, as many of you are, and don’t know the websleuth secret handshake yet, but I just can’t wrap myself around the thought that Cindy believes that she has a perfect family, and that any admission would crack a glass house that she lives in. CA comments to Casey’s friends prior to LE involvement show that she had great distain for Casey, telling them that Casey was a thief and a liar. If it was CA practice to project the image of a perfect family, I can’t see how she would go out of her way to shame Casey.

If what has been suggested by some did happen, a volatile confrontation between CA and Casey, this would explain why CA “understood” why for the first time both Casey and Caylee were gone from the Anthony home for such an extended period. She thought Casey was punishing her for the confrontation and was keeping Caylee from her. Cindy knows what happened, and she just can’t bring herself to be the one who clears it up for everyone and explain what may have lead up to Caylee’s murder.

 

[TotallyObsessed]

Excerpts from wikipedia on "narcissistic rage"

"Narcissistic rage is a reaction to narcissistic injury (when the narcissist feels degraded by another person). When the narcissist's grandiose sense of self worth is perceivably being attacked by another person, the narcissist's natural reaction is to rage and pull-down the self worth of others (to make the narcissist feel superior to others)."
I think the fight on the night of the 15th was a narcissistic injury that caused the "house of cards to come tumbling down" There's no telling what CA said to KC that night but I'm sure it made KC feel degraded in the worst way. CA had always covered for KC but not any more; not after SP confronted CA about KC's lies and theft. CA was probably brutally honest in her confrontation with KC and this change shocked her. KC was no longer on a pedestal in CA eyes. It brought on this "narcissistic rage".

"According to Kohut[1], rages are a result of the shame at being faced with failure. Narcissistic rage is the uncontrollable and unexpected anger that results from a narcissistic injury. Narcissistic injury is a threat to a narcissist’s self-esteem or worth. Rage comes in many forms, but all pertain to the same important thing, revenge."
Again, the confrontation with CA may have made KC face her failure and she was shamed to no end. CA probably threw it in her face how she was the only one mothering Caylee and what a lousy job of being a parent KC was doing. This, along with all the other things CA could have attacked her with, brought on this rage. KC sought revenge against her attacker, CA and the one who knocked her off her pedestal, Caylee.

"They can become enraged to the point of being homicidal especially if he/she has the need to seek revenge."
What better way to take revenge on CA than to take the life of Caylee? KC could no longer be attacked on her mothering skills and CA could no longer take credit for all she did for Caylee. KC knew how much it would hurt CA to lose Caylee. In a display of power and superiority over CA, KC took what meant more to her mother than anything in the world. "I gave you Caylee. You put her above me and you used her against me."
"What is given can be taken away"

CA probably knows nothing of narcissistic rage/injury but she does know that the fight they had that night was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back". This is what I think she feels guilty of. She feels as if she should have kept quiet and Caylee would still be alive. She thinks that if she had left KC on her perceived pedestal this wouldn't have happened.

MOO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_rage

My hat is off to you. What an amazing post. To me, that explains a lot of the As behavior. CA doing an about face and spouting to everyone who would listen what a good mother KC is....how loving she was....everything to try and "put the horse back in the barn" so to speak.