I have to say that I have had my oldest child live with me since becoming an adult off and on as well as my grandchildren. She has emotional issues. I have been up front with her when an intervention was needed. Sometimes she has been vindictive and moved to parts unknown with my grandchildren in tow. I have gone through the worst hell…the hell of not knowing. I have tried with several states to have the children checked on to be sure no compromising situations went unnoticed. I am leaving out a lot here, but believe me, there are times I could have been portrayed as domineering Cindy. However, I would never be portrayed as, ‘I accept being in the dark and/or I could not see deceit in my child’, after all, I am her mother. I have done my best to bring all my children up with values. Good ones. They have had discipline and been taught the value of hard work. They have been taught that no moral job in any capacity is demeaning. They also know that I am here for them through thick and thin. I haste to add they also know I call a spade a spade, even when it involves my own description. My daughter has said she ran because she wanted to do things she knew I would not approve of and therefore could not do it where the possibility of facing me with it existed. Now she is older and understands she could never run from herself. She has apologized for things she has done and has mended her life as well as her children’s lives. She made some bad choices. She grew older; she learned to take responsibility for her actions and realize her hell was self imposed and therefore could be made non existed by that same person-herself. I am proud of the strives she has made and continues to make in her life and the lives of her children. I am most proud that she could not bring herself, even after leaving for this purpose, to abort her 3rd child. She said she heard my voice whenever she was doing things that were not ‘right’. She gave that child over to her Dad and I to raise as our own. We keep our daughter involved in her life. She is a beautiful young lady and I am thankful daily that my daughter was unable to abort her. She raises her other two children now on her own. She has become a very good mother. She still has times she needs away from them (but thankfully no longer years at the time) to get in touch with herself and pick back up with their lives and hers better for the break (usually no more than a day at the time or a weekend passes by).
When you have a daughter you expect so much more when they have children but you have to be careful not to judge less ye be judged by the same manner of which ye mete out. I actually take issue with the Grandparents in only one manner and that is that they have given their lives to upholding the law. I say they as Cindy had to support George when he went to the dept. every day until he retired. Officers see so much but Homicide detectives see much more and I believe they should be even more accountable in a situation like this as, I agree, the signs of deception had to be there. I also realize that many times paranoia is an officers friend. On the flip side, had they followed their daughter about, she could have then come against them with stalking, harassment, and no telling what else she would have come up with that would have been upheld by our court system. It’s tough to protect those that are no longer ‘yours’ as adults and/or those loved ones that are their children-your grandchildren even when prior events have been a part of official charges against one or both parents. But, as hard as it would be they need to let the law-our justice system- work its way and not try to influence it.
How hard this is for them. I so am there with them. Life is never simple and things or people-even Cindy- are not always what you see. Their torment may seem to us the public temporary-bit it will last a lifetime for them long after we have moved on.
As to Lee-’I believe everything my sister tells me’-what a statement! I have 6 brothers and 2 sisters. Never have they always been truthful. Lee does not appear to naive to me. I too believe he could contribute much to the conclusion of this case. Even if he had to bear embarrassment in front of his folks for not coming clean as to the extent and length of his knowledge of little Caylee’s demise, he should do what he can as soon as he can-for them and for himself.
I know how this area of our state is. There are lots of young folks making their cash by ripping off people and reselling the electronics they take. There is lots of child exploitation. There is an abundance of me first in all ages of our population and that is why they have come to our great state. There is an abundance of cash changing hands for the ‘use’ of children. I refuse to think about those uses as there are too many horrors that happen. We the voters, need to make our laws tougher, support the officers in more pay, and in giving our own families a responsible upbringing.
There would be many disbelievers out there if some of these situations were brought up to you by your best friends. You would scoff. You would shun them. You would downplay the situation and in the end treat them like liars and ask yourselves-why me? Do you get it? You do no not want to believe these things happen much less that it happens in your inner circles-it’s called self preservation through denial. God help us all.
If you find yourself the recipient of such a conversation in whatever context, give it time, think about it and act on it as you would want it acted upon were it you seeking to share a burden with your best friend. Be careful of judgements and advice. If you cannot help, then research the parties or organizations that can and share it. What does it cost? Time. What can that time bring? Saved lives.
I can understand the denial the Anthony family is in. It’s part of grief. I can understand their anger-it’s part of grief. There are many stages of grief and they have much to grieve for, including the loss of a daughter. I wish them peace and may justice prevail.
In parting-Lee: Shame on you! I know you understand that statement and I don’t have special abilities. Unfortunately the FBI does not have a need for code talkers or self aggrandizement during, before, or after homicide investigations.

Really i mean Really? how is not testifying holding the court hostage. I do not thing that Casey Anthony should take another breath of Gods air, but to say that her parents are conspiring in this plot is mildly nuts.

We as Americans must maintain our rights the best we can. There is little that we can change on our own, and that is why we must try to have the outcome of all of our experiences be the best possible. For Casey’s parents that is what they are doing, they might not know if Casey did it or not, They Might. But either way, if she did it shes gonna fry. No reason for her parents to carry the burden of helping fry their daughter. just be cause one family member is a POS doesn’t mean they all are.

I must say that the release of every bit of information from the state of Florida is outrageous. It compromises her right to a fair trial, which regardless of how the public, feels she is entitled to in this country.