Would you lie in court to save your child? CLOSED FOR REVIEW

[Sabrina2011]

These people didn't lie to save their child's life, they obstructed justice in every way they could and in doing so, they "threw" their grand-daughter out the same way her mother did.

moo

That is exactly what they did! I mean if my child killed someones poor baby, I would feel so bad I would want to give them MINE in return.

But then again mine is a killer, so they probably would not want that one...

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[2door73chevy]

I won't LIE, period. If a jury votes to give my child that murdered an innocent person the DP then I live with that.

But the ONLY person that matters here is the innocent person that was killed. That is what the trial is.

Would I like to see my child get the DP.. God no! And would I beg MY child to have confessed LONG ago so that would not have been an option, HELL yes.

I would venture to guess most of us could have gotten our child to just spill the truth, MAKE a deal to save their life.

i think this is an unusual case as she will not tell the truth (not even about what brand of toilet paper she uses to wipe her bottom) God I have never seen anyone lie about the most stupid things. Something is wrong with her.

I happen to be a bit anti death-penalty. I "could" do it, but I think they suffer a lot more sitting in a cell for 60 years.

But again, I won't lie. I would beg for their life.. I would be honest (for goodness sakes, If i was on a stand, i am a bad liar... if you ask me a question and I feel i need to lie I probably burst into a giggle.. I really am not good, so long ago, probably age 4, I gave up lying for lent)

I agree with you, this is a very extreme case and I'm sure CA is going through hell...She lost a granddaughter and now she may lose her daughter..I would not want to be in her place..I would always ask myself where I went wrong

 

[Whaleshark]

This is a tuffy. I've always taught my boys that to lie is wrong & if you lie, you have to pay the consequences if you get caught. I also taught them that if this should happen you'd have to stand up for what you did & so, I don't think they would let me lie for them because of that...

I absolutely would not want them to die but if their actions were from killing my grandchild, I really don't know how I'd feel... Taking the blame for them would go against everything I've always stood for so, what am I showing them now? that in certain situations it's OK? that the biggest mistake you made in your life was wrong but I'm gonna go against everything I've ever taught you and save your azz once again? that no matter what you do, mommy will always make it better, even if it's taking the life of a precious child.....
If ICA gets off because of what CA did today, God knows what she'll try to get by with the rest of her life.

My bolded statement above... Right, you are telling them that what they did was not wrong, and it was ok to hurt someone else, and that you are a hyprocrite for teaching them not to lie and hurt others, but you'll do the same by saving their butts when they hurt someone else.

Loving your child doesn't mean you save them from everything including themselves. You can only teach them to the best of your ability and by example, but they will still have to make their own choices.

You have to love them and let them go, including facing the consequences of their own actions.

 

[buckeyefan1]

These people didn't lie to save their child's life, they obstructed justice in every way they could and in doing so, they "threw" their grand-daughter out the same way her mother did.

moo

this post almost made me cry! Casey will not be held accountable for the murder of her daughter. Cindy has never been held accountable for cleaning the car out, washing ICA;s clothing. I think this is obstruction of justice and now she will not be charged with perjury.
Her testimony today just made me sick. I don't think I want to see Lee's testimony. Wouldn't surprise me if he says he saw GA sexually assaulting ICA.

 

[raine1212]

I had to vote no, I could and would not cover for my child especially if it's was in reference to one my grandchildren. My child would not be in court, I would be..my child would have to face me as their judge and jury.

 

[gamom]

I believe that we as parents need to set examples for our children. I think we may be getting a glimpse of the examples that were set for ICA. I love my dd beyond words, but I feel I would not be a good parent by lying for her so I voted no.

This question was so hard for me. I DISPISE KC for what she did to Caylee. Accident or not, I despise how she has thrown her family completely under the bus and how she allowed Caylee's remains to be chewed by animals. Logic tells me, IF it were ME, I would side with the state and do everything in my power for justice for my grand daughter. But then, I look at my child aand I see the sweet baby I held and rocked to sleep, the little girl who I painted with on the front porch, the little girl with a smile big enough to light up any dark room and my heart kicks in.

I wouldn't lie to keep her out of jail or LWOP. That is pretty easy to say. But I would lie to save her life. I don't even have to think about it. I KNOW I would. Bottom line is DEATH IS DIFFERENT.

I hate myself for typing this. Especially since I have damned CA and GA from the get go for defending KC. But I would be lying if I said anything else. Call me an enabler or a helicopter mom...I guess, I am. I just could not see myself helping the state kill my daughter. That would not be justice for me. However, I could accept LWOP.

 

[LiveLaughLuv]

NO!

I don't lie for them now, I wouldn't lie for them if they were arrested. I would expect better from my children but one never really knows. I've raised them better than that...

Through my life I have realized never to say never...for we never know what the future holds. Tomorrow is promised to no one...today is a gift of the present and yesterday is a gift for memories..JMHO

Justice for Caylee

 

[2door73chevy]

This question was so hard for me. I DISPISE KC for what she did to Caylee. Accident or not, I despise how she has thrown her family completely under the bus and how she allowed Caylee's remains to be chewed by animals. Logic tells me, IF it were ME, I would side with the state and do everything in my power for justice for my grand daughter. But then, I look at my child aand I see the sweet baby I held and rocked to sleep, the little girl who I painted with on the front porch, the little girl with a smile big enough to light up any dark room and my heart kicks in.

I wouldn't lie to keep her out of jail or LWOP. That is pretty easy to say. But I would lie to save her life. I don't even have to think about it. I KNOW I would. Bottom line is DEATH IS DIFFERENT.

I hate myself for typing this. Especially since I have damned CA and GA from the get go for defending KC. But I would be lying if I said anything else. Call me an enabler or a helicopter mom...I guess, I am. I just could not see myself helping the state kill my daughter. That would not be justice for me. However, I could accept LWOP.

See...That's what my point is, I don't know how any parent would be ok with watching their child die when they could have said something to prevent it. LWOP fine, death no.

 

[Turnadot]

i know it's your child, but if your child was:

torturing, raping, and murdering babies and little kids?
taking and selling child ?
abusing his own child?
murdered his own child?

what have you done by saving his life - if he was that kind of person?

u say 'anything at all'.... would you admit to being a party to abusing your grandchild, partaking in the and murder of another child, taking the blame off your child?

if so, u are then saying it is ok for all that misery to be perpetrated on another innocent child or person, if it is my own child doing it, and that those other innocent children and victims don't count; only mine.

sounds sad and selfish to me.

and yes, i'm a parent, with a son.

To be frank, I don't care how it sounds. I'm not saying I would lie to keep him out of jail or LWOP. I specifically stated later in this thread that I could live with LWOP.

I would tell any lie I had to to save my child's life, no matter what he did.

Would I lie in court to save my child's life? YES.

Would I lie in court to keep him from LWOP? NO.

 

[Soulmagent]

I hope the results of this poll never make it to anyones trial! :floorlaugh:

 

[Sabrina2011]

See...That's what my point is, I don't know how any parent would be ok with watching their child die when they could have said something to prevent it. LWOP fine, death no.

BUT it is not just getting this monster of a child LWOP as opposed to DP

they could Acquit her! I say lying is an attempt to get your child back home so they can kill some other innocent person

YOU must begin to look at your own offspring as defective if they KILLED someone...

Sorry but some people have bad children.. they just do

 

[sherryk]

I think when it comes down to right and wrong.. my obligation TO my child would to be to tell the truth.. I raise my kids to tell the truth, I would have to practice what I preach. If that meant the death penalty I would just have to let the child know I love them and I live by what I try to teach.. not to lie, cheat, steal.

Sometime you just have to write a person off as a bad seed.. I think I would be able to do so if my child has done ALL of the things Casey has done.

 

[Sabrina2011]

If the parents of the murdering monster child that killed my innocent child came to me, crying begging me to do whatever I could to save their murdering kid from the death penalty (and they were genuinely saying it would kill them if their child that was a murderer was put to death)

Easy answer.. I would not want to see their murdering child put to death. If there was anything in my power with the Prosecutors i would fight for that childs life FOR their parents sake, even if my child was dead.

I would not want them out, but it would be hard for me to watch the parents suffer.

So i would write a nice note to the prosecutor.

"dear prosecutor
Go ahead and give them LWOP

Thanks,
Mother of the dead child who will never hug them, never go to their wedding, never see them have their own child, I will now not ever be a grandma, i'll never see my child grow old so we can wear non-matching clothes at seniors events.."

 

[2door73chevy]

BUT it is not just getting this monster of a child LWOP as opposed to DP

they could Acquit her! I say lying is an attempt to get your child back home so they can kill some other innocent person

YOU must begin to look at your own offspring as defective if they KILLED someone...

Sorry but some people have bad children.. they just do

Like I said, I don't have any kids (just a dog & 2 cats) but I'm SURE I could not watch my child die..LWOP ok.

Maybe CA is scared ICA will get the needle? She's a torn woman. She loved Caylee, we all saw that but her DD may die too...How horrible would one feel, if both happened? JMO

 

[Nenato5]

I think when it comes down to right and wrong.. my obligation TO my child would to be to tell the truth.. I raise my kids to tell the truth, I would have to practice what I preach. If that meant the death penalty I would just have to let the child know I love them and I live by what I try to teach.. not to lie, cheat, steal.

Sometime you just have to write a person off as a bad seed.. I think I would be able to do so if my child has done ALL of the things Casey has done.

I agree 100%

Have you ever heard of former FBI Agent John Cook? I have great respect for him, here is the link to his story. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/how-fbi-agent-sent-his-son-to-death-row-1155439.html

 

[Kat]

I voted I don't know.

I wouold have to be treated as a hostile witness if I were expected to testify against my own child in a DP case. I probably would end up doing time for refusal to answer.

Just being honest about me. I would never want to be in this position. I can't say what I would do--but I'm confident that I would never open my mouth and given anyone any fuel to prosecute any of my children. Regardless of what they are accused of doing. I would keep my mouth shut until the day I died probably. But that's just me and my personality. all JMHO

 

[Mish]

I hope the results of this poll never make it to anyones trial! :floorlaugh:

But it's been stated that this is merely a "hypothetical" question, based on THIS particular trial, with this particular situation. :innocent: Clearly none of us could answer what we would truly do under a total different set of circumstances, right? :thumb: JK

 

[nomoresorrow]

While we may see this now as Cindy lying in order to save Casey's life, I believe this is what Cindy has ALWAYS done for Casey and it is the very reason we're here today. I don't believe Cindy is troubled in the least at lying/lying for her daughter. Why would she? For the first time, today while Cindy was on the stand ly...testifying, I completely understood why Casey is who she is. It's not from having her father's ---- in her mouth, it's from mimicking her own mother. I had a friend that was alot like Casey and I'll never forget her own 6-year-old daughter one day telling me "My Mommy lies." Kids recognize and learn this very young!

 

[tctara]

No, I would not lie for my child if she took an innocent's person, let alone a child's life. Never.

 

[gamom]

I am so surprise while I respect the honest opinions to see that so many parents would lie to let their child get a way with murder. If my child was murdered then I would hope that the parents would give their child support but not help them get a way with murdering my loved one.

I can't speak for every "yes" on this thread, but for me, it would not be my intention to lie to save my child from the consequences of murder, but I would like to save my child from the ultimately penalty of DEATH. I of course would have pleaded with my child to take a plea deal to save her life but if it came down to a trial, you better believe my testimony would not be the one the state needed to get the death penalty. To get a conviction, no problem, I wil stand up and tell the truth, but if they were going after the death penalty, they would have to find another way to prove it. I don't think I would even get on the stand to lie, I would have plead the fifth from the get go.

In all honesty, I feel CA is at peace with lying for KC because she feels that KC won't walk. She feels in her heart, even Caylee would not want KC to be killed. Punished, but not killed. She has convinced herself of this. MOO