Sadly the report released this week regarding the murder of Caylee Anthony wasn’t all that unusual.
The report from the Florida child welfare officials noted that it’s clear that abuse caused the death of the 2-year-old girl. It’s also clear that her mother won’t be legally responsible, according to an Associated Press report.
“The Department of Children and Families closed out its investigations of Caylee’s death, noting Casey Anthony failed to protect Caylee by not reporting her disappearance in 2008 for more than a month, and that failure interfered with the law enforcement investigation and efforts to find the child.
“The agency also concluded that Caylee died as a result of abuse or neglect, but the report said the agency was unable to substantiate that the toddler had died from asphyxiation.
“‘The inactions by the mother were clearly failure to protect. As the child was found dead, obviously the failure to protect led to the death,’ DCF spokesman Joe Follick said.”
Anthony joins the growing list of people who are able to beat the system, who are able to be declared legally irresponsible when there has clearly been a horrible crime committed.
“Anthony will not face additional charges as a result of Thursday’s report,” the AP reported.
It is clear that, unless Anthony has a change of conscience somewhere down the road, the truth about what happened to the little girl will never be known. It is safe to presume that her end was unpleasant and that it came at the hands of someone who was supposed to protect and care for the little girl.
What is clear, the state officials have noted, is that the mother did not do what needed to be done to keep the little girl safe.
Love her, find someone who would love her to adopt her, drop her off with her grandparents — the list just goes on and on of options to taking the child’s life.
In a world where there is no established right and wrong, where anything can be made right if your excuse is good enough, then it becomes very difficult to establish responsibility.
Meanwhile, the “mother” who waited a month to report her daughter as missing told the social agency that the did acknowledge she’d “made some bad decisions.”
So did her jury.
— Chuck Smith