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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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Cindy has two media spokespeople and an attorney so why is no one advising her to shut her yap and stay off the TV? Her smug smile and bad attitude are making anyone feel sympathy for her. George seems to be pulled along for the ride. RUN GEORGE RUN.
- Blah
Posted 10/23/08 09:25 AM
 
**NOT getting her sympathy** is what I meant to type. Need. coffee…
- Blah
Posted 10/23/08 09:28 AM
 
I hope this child will be found alive but I do not believe the out come will be good. I want to know one thing, if she is such a good parent, how do you not know where your child is at any given time. These parents need to wake up, their child knows what happened to their grandchild. Stop blaming everyone else around them. There are hundreds of strangers that are out there looking for this child. If you truly believe she is still alive get out there and start looking stop blaming other people. May god keep this child in his arms.
- Pat
Posted 10/23/08 11:05 AM
 
If only Casey had been willing to protect and take care of her own innocent daughter the way her parents are going out of their way to protect and defend their guilty one! If they care about Casey so much, and think that’s what parents should do, it should appall them all the more that she didn’t care about her own daughter.
- Ali
Posted 10/23/08 11:23 AM
 
Casey’s parents are wasting everyone else’s time with their delusions and lies. I realize they aren’t the ones who killed their granddaughter, but it would serve them right if everyone—media and all—would turn their backs on these two oafs and refuse to grant them the attention they clearly no longer deserve.
- rachelemybelle
Posted 10/23/08 02:30 PM
 
Casey is obviously innocent. She is being framed by someone. Leave the poor girl alone already.
- Pete
Posted 10/23/08 02:40 PM
 
The Anthony’s know they’ve already lost their granddaughter-so they want to hold on to the only thing they have left of her-their daughter.Yes, they appear to be delusional, but truthfully would it be that easy to throw in the towel and say oh yes my own flesh and blood killed her own flesh and blood-sentence her to death?? I feel sorry for them, really. They dont know what to do or think. They believe it because THEY WANT TO, and they will come to terms with it in their own way in their own time. It really is a messed up situation. may Caylee rest in peace, may casey find her conscience or rot in hell and may the anthony family find a way to cope without having to lie to themselves.
- A mother
Posted 10/23/08 05:46 PM
 
I cannot get over how these people blatantly support the belief that Caylee is alive when she is not. I think that Cindy and George have been advised to tell the world that they believe that Caylee is alive knowing that she is dead to save Casey from the Death Penalty. Everytime there is a question that doesn’t suit them they say they are not allowed to comment. Let us see some of the evidence showing that there have been leads that the Anthony’s have been following up on. I think that if they were going to be “knocking on every door” to find her they would be actively out in the public and we would know about it. The only time the Anthony’s seem to leave their home is to appear on National television to plead Casey’s innocence and then they turn around and blame the same media outlets for the exposure surrounding their daughter’s case. I cannot believe how they lash out at the officials and the media who have brought attention to the one thing that is important and that is finding that poor little girls body. Why are they even going on television to talk, they are only making fools of themselves, I suppose it is because they need the money to pay for all the debt Casey has caused them. Actions speak louder than words and from their very first testimony that is what remains evident. To back paddle and change the truth is just a way to throw people off of searching for Caylee so that Casey does not die too and then they have lost both Caylee and Casey. I also feel that they blame themselves and that is why they are protecting her. If it weren’t for these big fat lawyers advising them to shut up or pretend they believe Caylee is out there we probably would have found out the truth long ago but we have to wait for the evidence instead. Thank goodness for forensic science and all the aspects of putting this together because if this had happend 20 years ago she would have walked. I hope she stays in jail now until her death being natural or injection as Caylee did not have a chance and for this she should pay and I would say the same for myself if I had done something so cruel. Selfish sociopathic
- Sue
Posted 10/23/08 08:43 PM
 
If you ask yourself “How can you raise a woman who can murder her child?” Listen to the Parents of this woman they are as crazy as she is! In this interview he said “I would not give up my daughter for any reason” Well, Okey,Dokey! They are insulting and as guilty as their daughter!
- Susan
Posted 10/23/08 09:31 PM
 
Maybe God wanted this beautiful little girl in heaven with him and away from this clearly dysfunctional sad family. As strange as it sounds maybe this was his way of saving Caylee from that family.
- Another Mother
Posted 10/23/08 09:54 PM
 
I think there’s a whole lot more going on than we know-let’s see the trial
- kyle
Posted 10/23/08 10:48 PM
 
Just cannot understand why Casey goes on and does not give the answers the police are looking for. She knows what happened to Casey! I would be out looking for my daughter if all I was going to do was steal money from my friend to buy beer for myself and the boyfriend and sexy lingerie to try to get another unwanted child. It is ridiculous to think she could go out and in secret look for her little girl????? Ppppllleeasssssssee! She would be gone in a New York minute! I pray to God to lift her heart for the sake of that beautiful little girl and tell where Caylee is and what REALLY happened. She literally makes me sick to look at her. She by far is not a beauty like I seem to gather from her actions she thinks she is. People please pray for this little girl, Caylee, that she will be found and can properly be buried!! I just have no hope this beautiful little girl is alive here on this earth. I have also wondered why the grandparents and brother have not gone out looking for their granddaughter/niece?? Maybe they have and I missed someone saying they have. If so I apologize to them. Just wondered why they spend time trying to fence people out of their yard when they could be doing something more profitable. God bless all the people that have been looking for her and all the diligence they have shown us.
- gammawfox
Posted 10/24/08 01:20 AM
 
Casey Anthony is a good mother just like Susan Smith was in 1994. As for Cindy Anthony, the apple does not fall far from the tree.
- Kat
Posted 10/24/08 08:56 AM
 
The parents of Casey are definitely in cover-up mode. But, I think they are operating under the instructions of a team of lawyers who have told them that unless they do this, Casey could go to Death Row. (Where she BELONGS!) These two people are Lee and Jackie Peterson, all over again. They are despicable to watch, but, at the same time, they are pitiful, too. To have to lie and lie and lie, believing if you don’t you will lose your daughter to prison, isn’t a tea party. I think that most parents would refrain from the blatant lies they have told, but, maybe lies come easy in this household. They didn’t kill the child, but, at this point, they are contributing to the crime by obstruction of justice. What kind of grandparents can bear thinking of that child rotting in the woods, or swamp, being eaten by wildlife? They are a creepy family. I think Lee may be Casey’s father. No lie. I think there is some underlying dysfunction that all of them continue to lie and lie and lie and lie. They are all sociopaths.
- Jean
Posted 10/24/08 12:08 PM
 
This is a sick and sad case. Unfortunately, it isn’t entirely unexpected. Look at the self-centered behavior of this “mother”. Clubbing with friends, chasing after man after man, lying, cheating, and stealing from family and friends to meet HER desires. If her computer showed evidence of searches for “missing children” and chloroform (making and purchasing) before the child vanished, then you have premediation that she intended to “get rid” of her little problem and make it look like other “unsolved” cases. There is some theory that she used chloroform as a “babysitter” to knock the little girl out while she partied, and that is certainly possible (leaving her in the trunk)— but the missing child searches before she vanished discounts that. Not to get too controversial (and tick off half the audience)— why doesn’t this make sense given the abortion culture? If a self-centered person can get rid of a child before she is born, why can’t they get rid of them after? (what magic happens inbetween?). No one should have to be stuck with a child they don’t want, right? As the culture goes, why should this mother be punished for the “rest of her life” because she didn’t abort her daughter? It hurts to even ask this, as it tends to “set off” a good portion of the public who supports free and available “choice”.
- Jimster
Posted 10/24/08 02:32 PM
 
What a travesty. This little girl’s life ultimately means nothing to these grandparents as they very obviously protect their daughter. With blaring evidence staring them in the face, they have chosen to lie their way out of the situation just as their daughter has. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I guess. You might be enjoying your 15 minutes of fame now- in this very sad situation - but what will you do after when the adrenaline to save your murderous daughter ceases? Cindy, always remember your first reaction about the stench in the trunk of that car. We will. You say Caylee will always come first. It’s very obvious she does not. Poor little girl - what was your life really like before your mother took your life?
- Nancy
Posted 10/25/08 11:00 AM
 
It may be old news already but I just found out by searching another site, Judge Pirro’s, that shortly before this drama unfolded Casey found a new boyfriend, eliminated all of Caylee’s photos on her MySpace page, searched for chloroform on the internet, searched missing children’s websites, stole her own father’s gas cans, made frantic calls in a wooded area, borrowed a shovel, and abandoned the car smelling of decay. I knew most of the info already but what jumped out at me was her removing all of Caylee’s pictures from her MySpace. To me it signals that this was the exact moment she formed the intent to kill her daughter. She had symbolically rubbed her out already, now it was only a matter of following it up with the actual murder. I have to agree with those who say this was no accident.
- Gloria
Posted 10/25/08 05:48 PM
 
My stomach is sick thinking about the grandparents and the mother and the bed of lies..wait..web of lies and stories… they need to find this little girl and bury her- No good parent would not know the babysitters name or number, or not call the police. In my heart I know the girl is dead but pray the mother sold the child to be rid of her but I know thats probably not the fact. I hope the grandparents do somehow get charged in the end when the body is found for helping coverup, because it just looks like a huge cover to protect the daughter. What is sad is there are so many out there just like them…why didn’t the grandmother let the daughter give up the baby when she was pregnant…then some loving family would be tucking her in and appreciating the love and laughter and smiles of a child right now.
- Sandy
Posted 10/25/08 06:22 PM
 
cindy destroyed evidence just in time when she washed those pants. the car smelled, oh yes. “that smell was Terrible!” She said. So she washes the evidence. READ what others said when they signed this, need 500 more signatures. MAKE CINDY ANTHONY RESPONSIBLE FOR HER ACTIONS She is SUCH a cheeze! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/make-cindy-anthony-..
- Poze
Posted 10/25/08 06:41 PM
 
With Casey stealing her dad’s gas cans I think the people looking for Caylee’s remains ought to be looking not so much for a body but for a little pile of ashes…I too am haunted by the idea of this little one left in some swamp to rot, and I have visions of her being found, and laid to rest in a decent manner. But who’s to say Casey didn’t cremate her? I suspect incinerating the body, and maybe scattering and covering the ashes must be an excellent way to cover your tracks. She seemed to be satisfied and smug enough after the deed that she must know the remains will never be found.
- Gloria
Posted 10/26/08 01:50 AM

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