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"Casey Anthony Is a Great Mom"

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Casey Anthony's parents Cindy and George appear on this morning's "Today" show to defend their daughter. Watch the video here.

Prosecutors have dropped child neglect charges against Casey because they believe Caylee is dead. Casey, however, still sits in jail on first degree murder, manslaughter and other charges, capping a four month investigation into little Caylee's whereabouts.

Casey is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, October 28.

• Meredith askd Cindy if she believes Caylee is still alive. Cindy said, "Caylee is absolutely alive. This is media frenzy, designed to slow down the process of finding Caylee. The 'evidence' of a decomposing body is circumstantial, and no evidence is 100 percent."

• Meredith also asked, "But Casey lied to police, and chloroform was found in her car. She doesn't come across as a distraught mom. Help us understand her behavior."

"The pictures of Casey partying at a club were taken before June 16. If you really look at the timeline, Casey's behavior makes sense...it's not possible Casey is guilty," says Cindy.

"People never know how they will react in difficult times," she said. "Casey gets judged every day."

"We have never doubted our daughter, not even in a quiet moment," said George.

• When Meredith asked Cindy and George if they would support Casey if she's found guilty of murder, Cindy answered, "I don't believe Casey is dead. I would support her but...I don't know what I'd do."

What do you think of Cindy Anthony's comments? Comment in the momlogic community.


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The Bible says one will reap its own outcome based on the action incurred. Casey Anthony will have her judgement day, one way or another. And per the Bible, Caylee will be resurrected in the New World where she can live free and roam free happily.
- Anonymous
Posted 10/22/08 02:40 PM
 
“Casey is a great mom”. Yeah I think there is enough proof that she wasn’t the best mother. What gets me is the “adoption” factor. She wanted to give the kid up for adoption but Cindy wouldn’t have it. A mother should have the right to give up her baby for adoption if she knows she can’t give it a good home or take care of it properly. Why not give somebody who wants kids the child instead of letting a 22 year old jobless single mother. I think Cindy is sticking up for Casey now because she feels guilty for not letting Casey give the kid up for adoption. Next thing you know the kid is “missing”.(or probably dead) The parents are trying to protect the life of their child now.(I don’t know if there is a decent parent out there that wouldn’t try to protect their children) I think they’ve realized there is no hope of finding the child but believe they might be able to prevent Casey being locked up for life.
- El MO Man
Posted 10/22/08 02:50 PM
 
George & Cindy Anthony have totally lost their minds. I knew they were in denial, but no matter what, Casey Anthony is/was probably one of the worst mothers in US history. The world will be a much better place and justce will be well served as soon as Casey Anthony is executed and rotting in the ground.
- Stephen Weber
Posted 10/22/08 02:52 PM
 
If my son had been missing at that age I would have been inconsolable. I would not have been able to party for weeks, sleep around , go shopping etc. Casey’s mom keeps saying there are reasons that her daughter can’t talk about where Caylee is at. Casey is the way she is and you can look at her mom to see why. Casey’s mom said a couple times the police have not looked for her granddaughter for quit a while. Well they have no cooperation from Casey, no help, nothing. Casey’s parents know their granddaughter is deceased and now are trying to save their daughter even though she killed Caylee.
- mary
Posted 10/22/08 02:53 PM
 
Cindy is definitely an enabler. I still don’t get how she has now turned on the authorities and the media when she is the one who involved both. Had it not been for Cindy’s 911 calls, none of this would be happening. She was the first person to say “…I found my daughter’s car…smells like there’s been a dead body in the car.” She is a registerd nurse. Seems to me she would know that smell. I did have some sympathy for George but that too has evaporated. They both need to refocus their energy. The focus should be on bringing home Caylee’s remains so that she can be given a proper burial.
- Tricia
Posted 10/22/08 03:02 PM
 
I’d like to think that if I were a parent and a grandparent, I wouldn’t overlook the victimization of one as committed by the other. Cindy, you are a failure as a parent and a grandparent.
- rachelemybelle
Posted 10/22/08 03:04 PM
 
You are all so right, Casey Anthony is nothing but a liar & so is her entire family.
- Sheila
Posted 10/22/08 03:11 PM
 
Kelli, there will be no defense that Casey did it because she was abused or molested. Casey will never admit Caylee is dead or that she had anything to do with it. She will maintain Caylee was alive when she left her on the steps of the Sawgrass Apartments with Zanny Nanny. The question will be who she will say now is Zanny. Cindy told the investigators she believed Zanny was whoever friend Casey was staying with. Cindy said she believes Zanny is now either Jesse or Amy. The defense will either pin the kidnapping and murder (if they find a body) on the fictitious Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, Amy or Jesse.
- Sally
Posted 10/22/08 03:29 PM
 
Does Cindy remember her 911 calls when she wanted this wonderful daughter arrested for stealing and that she lied to her about Caylee. Does George remember his interview with the police about how he new something was not right and how Casey had stolen gas cans and lied, racked up her moms credit cards, and lied for over a year about a job. Does he has a former police officer remember the smell in the car???? Come on Cindy and George, stop the cover-up!!!!
- Cathy
Posted 10/22/08 03:32 PM
 
We don’t know for sure Casey wanted to give up Caylee for adoption and Cindy talked her out of it. Casey told friends that but Casey is a pathological liar. I wouldn’t believe anything she said. Richard Grund, Jesse Grund’s father, told Nancy Grace that Jesse tried to talk Casey into giving Caylee up for adoption when she told Jesse he was the father. Richard Grund said Casey refused to give Caylee up for adoption. Casey may have not wanted to be a mother but used Caylee to try to get someone to take care of her the rest of her life. First by telling a man she dated two weeks that he was the father, not counting on him taking a DNA test and finding out it was a lie. Then by sponging off her parents for almost three years because they wouldn’t throw their granddaughter out. When Cindy choked Casey over her stealing her grandfather’s assisted living fund on June 15, Casey realized her parents gravy train was coming to an end and Cindy was going to try to get custody of Caylee and throw her out. She didn’t want to give Caylee to her mother, so she got rid of Caylee so she could be free of her daughter and her mother.
- Sally
Posted 10/22/08 03:46 PM
 
Both parents are just as dysfunctional as Casey. The mother and daughter are both Narissitic and Casey is a Sociopath. Nuff said.
- Jane
Posted 10/22/08 03:57 PM
 
Well, where was it Amy went on vacation while Casey was forging her signature on checks? Wasn’t it Puerto Rico? Imagine that, and isn’t that where they believe Zanny took Caylee?
- Kelli
Posted 10/22/08 04:35 PM
 
Wow did you notice the body language going on? The gap between George and Cindy on the couch ‘The Great Divide’ was similar to the space most people allow around strangers not a love one. Cindy is totally closed off to George back turned and the whole works. She rarely looks at him and when she does it is almost forced. At the beginning of the interview George has his hands folded on his left knee and he eventually lays it on the couch next to Cindy reaching to console her as a loving spouse would and she would have nothing to do with it. She is totally closed to him. I see a divorce brewing! The other thing is Cindy either looks down or to the side when asked about Caylee’s welfare and Casey’s involvement. She knows what Casey did!!! Their bodies say it all!
- Proud Mom of five!
Posted 10/22/08 06:08 PM
 
SOMEONE PLEASE…. throw a bucket of cold water on cindy and george ! arresting cindy would be even better… i wonder what else she cleaned up in that car ?
- sami
Posted 10/22/08 06:16 PM
 
Cindy: “No evidence is 100 percent.” Really? If law enforcement officers found this child’s body with irrefutable evidence that her mother was responsible for her death — wouldn’t that be 100 percent evidence? Oh, wait! Probably not…. It’s sad, but these grandparents have lost touch with reality. They cannot face the fact that their daughter might be responsible for the death of her own child.
- Sherilew
Posted 10/22/08 06:17 PM
 
Well the only thing Casey and her parents are really doing, is digging a deeper grave for Casey. Since Casey isn’t showing any kind of remorse for the lose of her daughter, the jury will not feel sorry for her at all, and they will give her the death penalty no matter what. I can’t amagine spending anymore tax payers dollars feeding the Baby Killer. Yes, I agree with everybody, that George, Cindy and Lee do know what happened to Caylee. I’m starting to wonder if Lee had anything to do with it, he’s got these guilty actions going on as well. George and Cindy, if your reading these comments, I would consider telling the truth, because your lies are getting way out of hand. The world is watching, and we can see your all guilty and your hidding something. Your actually digging a bigger grave for your daughter. Wake Up! Lets bring Caylee home and give her a wonderful place to rest.
- Honey
Posted 10/22/08 07:35 PM
 
Cindy said on the Today Show that she and George weren’t going to see Casey in jail because Casey wants the focus to be on finding Caylee. Is this the same Casey who called Cindy from jail when she was first arrested July 16 demanding her boyfriend’s number and going into a rage when anybody wanted to talk about Caylee. Ever since Casey was arrested, Cindy and George have been focusing on Casey instead of Caylee. Cindy refused to cooperate with law enforcement the first couple of months because the investigators were looking for a dead Caylee and trying to find evidence that Casey murdered her. Instead of getting out there and looking for Caylee, they’ve spent all their time getting Casey out of jail, lying and covering up for Casey and blaming the news media and law enforcement of framing Casey.
- Sally
Posted 10/22/08 08:55 PM
 
I really wish that most of the larger tv networks would stop giving them tv time. We’re already finding out that they are receiving money for their appearances. Well, money for pictures the Anthony’s supply that the networks can air. Whatever, it’s still going into the Anthony’s pockets. I’m tired of looking at Cindy Anthony’s lying delusional face, hearing her ridiculous rants. I can see this whole thing just turning into some horrible dark comedy film. All the while this poor child lies alone, decomposed, scattered, and in all probability, will never be found. Casey can spend the rest of her life in jail, fabricating more lies to impress her fellow inmates. At least they will be her real friends, at last people she can’t steal from. I assume she could if she wanted, but her new prison mama will probably be alot harsher with her than Cindy has ever been. Maybe she can tell them of her days working at Disney..all the men who lined up for her…pole dancing for $50 bucks and a bottle of booze, while your three year old rots away in the middle of some swamp somewhere. I tried to have compassion for the Anthony’s but they’ve become some freakish parody of themselves. You’re a fool Cindy Anthony, you and this self important monster you enabled to commit the most selfish act of all. Murdering her 3 year old daughter out of jealousy and general inconvenience to her “lifestyle”.
- Information Overload
Posted 10/22/08 10:01 PM
 
I have a friend who is a retired counselor with tons of experience, and he claims that mothers who kill their children, or attempt to, carry deep seated wounds from their childhood. Often physical and sexual abuse are involved. Often chronic parental neglect is involved. Or both. It was interesting to see that Cindy, in the video, when asked about her daughter and granddaughter, immediately exclaimed, “Caylee will always come first!” I wonder, did Casey ever come first with her? Or was she ever an after-thought? I have a friend whose husband, unbeknownst to her, sexually abused her daughter for years. That daughter has a behavior profile very similar to Casey’s. The party girl. Why was Casey’s brother so unwilling to give DNA samples? Yep, I believe this family is very sick, and keeping secrets, and very good at keeping them. No matter what the truth is, they are likely to stick together, and continue to keep up the appearance of the perfect, all-American family. On a personal note, I still remember how painful it was for me to watch my own mother mothering and fussing over my daughter when she had never had any love or time for me! Not everyone who’s challenged by their own early deprivation becomes a killer, however. But I do still remember the murderous rage boiling inside of me, as my mother continued to dismiss me, and put me down, while spoiling my kid to the point that my offspring became disrespectful to me as well! I put an end to the situation by putting an end to our contact with grandma. It should be obvious by now why I am occuppied with this case…
- Gloria
Posted 10/23/08 03:04 AM
 
This is truly so very sad. I can’t believe that her parents are remaining so positive and are in denial regarding their daugthers innocence or guilt. They need to focus more on finding out what happened to their granddaugther, more so than defending their daugther. Its apparent that she doesn’t care one way or the other. This is truly sad! My prayers go out to their family!
- D Upson
Posted 10/23/08 09:23 AM

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