Disclaimer- Strong feelings have been displayed in this blog, just a warning.
Over the past few days I have been reading what my friends on Facebook have been posting on the Casey Anthony trial and verdict. Some have wanted to commit cruel and unusual punishment on her. Some have said that justice failed. Some are just plain angry. This trail is the perfect example of having the freedoms to speak our minds. To voice our opinions of what we think. In other countries you can be charged for the opinions that we voice. There is no such thing as freedom of speech in other countries. Another thing that has been proven in this trial that the justice system worked perfectly like it should. The prosecution had a job to do and they could not clearly establish how this child died. To this day no one in America other than the one that committed the crime could say how she died. All that the prosecution had to go by was circumstantial evidence and far out technology. How would you feel if you were on trial with that as the evidence that could potentially take your life away. To me, that would be the justice system failing. That would be sending a potentially innocent person to prison or death row. That would be taking rights away that have been fought for to make this country so great. we are a country that is innocent until proven guilty and the prosecution failed miserably at proving she was guilty.
I am not saying that she is innocent, as my opinion I feel that she had something to with death of her child or knows who did it. But to base on just her actions is not enough. Being a liar does not make you a murderer. Going out and partying instead of grieving does not make you desensitized, if that is the case my husband is the most desensitized person I know. Sure she did not do what we considered the norm for grieving, but that still does not make her a murderer. The alleged computer searches that were done on the family computer does not make her a murderer. Being a criminal justice student and avid true crime reader I am guilty of those searches does that make me an awful person or going to commit crimes anytime soon, No, but if she was to be convicted solely on that evidence there are millions of people including myself that would be in trouble.
Another thing I have seen is pertaining to why she was not charged with child neglect. There was no evidence of child neglect. She built this elaborate story of a nanny, that by the time that she finally told the truth there was nothing that they could have gone on. As a mother, I panic when I cannot see or hear my children after a certain amount of time. I myself cannot imagine going for a month not knowing where or what has happened to them. The thing about this case is she told the lie so many times that she probably started believing it herself. She even had the confidence enough to at full fledged details that made it believable. We believed that Susan smith's children were carjacked by a black man, why would we not believe that a nanny had her child.
Another thing that made this case so sensational was the fact it has been televised since day one. Every single day we have mothers that commit horrendous crimes to their children, but we do not hear it. I did a search on mothers who kill and came up with millions of crimes that have happened through out the years, but only a handful I actually knew of because of them being televised. I came across one that happened in early 2000 where a mother killed her 25 day old daughter by putting her in the microwave oven. Until that story I thought that was just urban legend. This story just sicken me, but had I not did a search I would have never known.
Another fact is that Casey is pretty and had a cute daughter. Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children, but she was not exactly the cream of the crop. Beauty is a big thing in our country; you either have it or you don't.
In the end there was no win-win situation. A granddaughter was taken and a daughter will never have her life back. She will be forever branded. In a way she has set her own prison term. She does not have a family now, no friends. She will constantly have to watch her back. She can never go back to how it was before. If she is smart, she will move out of this country.
