Let's Give Casey Anthony a Break

Clearly, the girl’s got problems. Her daughter disappears and she fails to report it. She probably made a mongo mistake even becoming a mother in the first place. She’d be well served to reform her party girl ways. She’s pretty much lost all her friends and family. Plus, she sacrificed the past few years of her life to jail time, which can’t have helped her professional life–and God only knows what else probably happened to her in prison.

Now a jury has acquitted her of murder, but the rest of us are bound and determined to skewer her anyway. While she may be released from prison, are we going to serve up a heaping helping of vigilante justice and punish her anyway, either through flat out violence or through blatant rejection, hatred, personal and professional sabotage, or whatever else we scheme up?

Have we all lost the capacity to forgive?

I don’t know whether Casey Anthony killed her daughter. And I’m not going to spout off about how I totally trust our justice system and her release proves the system works (I’m not sure it does).

But a jury of her peers let her go. So who are we to be judge and jury of anyone else’s life?

Let’s just give Casey the benefit of the doubt for a minute. Let’s assume she was telling the truth and she really was abused by her father. What kind of damage does that do to a young psyche? And let’s say she survived that abuse but escaped the way most abused women do–into mind-numbing substances and experiences that cover up the recurrent nightmares and images of terror, shame, and guilt.

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jane r.

7:04PM PST on Nov 27, 2011

She got away with murder. How she is treated is simply a reflection of what people think/know she did. She made her bed now she must lie in it.

send a green star

Rudolf A.

12:51PM PDT on Sep 27, 2011

Why are women always judged differently from men? What I mean is, why are they always judged more harshly? Do we expect them to be 100% perfect, and when they are not, why do we punish them so harshly?

Hasan Y.

2:59AM PDT on Sep 1, 2011

Thanks

Helen l.

6:41AM PDT on Aug 24, 2011

Well she is coming through to check in and then possibly can leave. However, I feel since they brought her in on Sunday to Florida and set her up with Defense's friends, they do not intend to jet her in night before and back out day of probation ck in. Probably getting a little old to have the 12 month added on to all else they have to come up against hiding her out. Some one said she is innocent. Come on, checks no. Other no. If can not report, can not discuss, can not write about, then guilty of something. There is no reason to hide what happened, where it happened unless it would condemn someone such as she. If parents were guilty they would have told to get her out of incarceration for 3 years. If she were guilty, the word is MUM.

A M A.

1:00PM PDT on Aug 23, 2011

Agreed, Darla. She doesn't deserve our attention, much less a "break."

2:27PM PDT on Aug 20, 2011

Since I last wrote I have been told about her escapades with Mark and Tara and her brother involved in all the group of tangles. there. It is no wonder this suppose to be a mother is where she is today. You would have to read it all as it is so filthy sounding the many occurrences. Meanwhile she is in CA with her first attorney supposedly and no one has told me if she has to stay in Fl for probation or if she can just jet set back and forth. Because of her daughters life, she has monetary security now and finally has found HER BIG LIFE it sounds like she wanted. I can not see how Cindy stayed sane with this family. I think she tried to run the household and George and Lee were ran over by Casey. If you research, there is much more to be found than on this comment group, than in the disappearance of Caylee. There was much more before Caylee was born. There is much more what I call just trashy messes. If not for this child, I would have been out of anywhere that had Casey Anthony's name and out of here a few days ago when all this other came out from other people telling me. Just look up I think it is Mark and Tara Hawkins and Casey and Lee and then work backward. Caylee was born into a web of hornets.

Darla G.

1:46PM PDT on Aug 19, 2011

truly we will never know the whole truth... and I know I am now alone in saying enough already....are we all not tired of all the drama surrounding her... there is a dead child, a true travesty, and she deserves our focus ,love and prayers, and instead the world is focused on this horrid woman, who whether she beleives it or not, is likely revelling in the lime light, the good the bad and the ugly. Historically monsters do that...

3:16PM PDT on Aug 12, 2011

Key in: CFNEWS13.com . Casey Anthony has to appear hours before and then report Aug 26 in Orange County where designated. This report will be pulled up today automatically if you key in the above stated. At least she will do her probation as should have been. Thanks to Judge Perry deciding what is legally acceptable law wise.

3:59AM PDT on Aug 12, 2011

She deserves what she gets in this life from people that cared for Caylee just knowing Caylee after her death. The pictures to me bring her alive in their own way. I hope no one kills Casey. I had rather her lived a shunned life the rest of her life. If the contribution bunch ever decides to quit wasting their money on her, then she will have to come out of hiding. Baez will not support her forever. They are determined to get a million but after they take their part, tax comes in there surely, other costs, she need not think she is going to be living the life of leisure in some villa doing her LIVING THE BIG LIFE. When they tell me they turn her away from the food line when they know who she is, I will be satisfied. I hope God will forgive me, but I think He understands because he knows ALL.