Posted by
Mike on Sunday, July 10, 2011 3:25:39 PM
http://www.westernperspective.blogspot.com/
Incest may be the oldest taboo known to man. Roman Polanski brilliantly
portrayed the dynamics of denial for families in which incest remains
hidden in the 1974 motion picture
Chinatown.
It is my belief that Casey Anthony told the truth for perhaps the first
time in her life when she admitted to her attorneys that her father had
sexually abused her from the time she was eight years old, and that her
daughter Caylee was conceived within an incestuous relationship between
father and daughter, for reasons explained previously within this blog.
From that age she was forced to shut off a mental switch to reality,
because of the guilt and shame associated with incest, as a survival
mechanism, and create her own fantasy world complete with imaginary
friends, as her defense counsel has portrayed at trial. The dishonesty
and denial was not confined to Casey but extended within her immediate
family.
The prosecutor Mr. Ash hit the nail on the head in describing Casey's
fantasy lifestyle as making it impossible for her to continue as a
mother after her child began to articulate thoughts and
ask questions. Casey is not stupid. She knew that Caylee would
eventually start asking who her father was. At some point, she would
not buy the story that her father had died in a car crash. The fantasy
world would begin to unravel and the house of cards in which Casey had
built her whole life would collapse. However, the prosecution could not
prove whether this led Casey to kill her daughter as alleged.
Defense counsel were apparently right in explaining Casey's bizarre
behavior as caused by sex abuse, and not, as the prosecution contended,
that she is a pathological liar. No, Casey is not a pathological liar
or a ****. Mr. Ash tried to explain away the conflicting accounts of
the meter reader as those of a person who likes spinning tall tales, but
could not bring himself to grant the same benefit of the doubt to Casey
Anthony. Rather the prosecution asserted that Casey's fabrications
were indicative of consciousness of guilt.
Because defense counsel did their job in convincing the jury that Casey
was the victim of incest and sexual abuse within her family, Casey was
acquitted of all charges except those involving lying to law
enforcement. This was a just verdict.
The State of Florida was well aware of a police and FBI investigation
regarding incest shortly after Caylee came into this world in 2005. If
the pattern holds true, my guess is that Mrs. Anthony, a registered
nurse, was the one who reported possible incest to the police. The
prosecutors knew about these investigations. They could have charged
Casey with a lesser offense of negligent homicide. Mr. Ash stated
during closing arguments that Caylee could have died as a result of
Casey using chloroform to put Caylee to sleep, or using duct tape over
her mouth to keep her quiet. Yet the jury did not buy the prosecution's
claim that Casey committed premeditated murder based upon
circumstantial evidence, nor this other argument of death caused by
aggravated child abuse, also based upon circumstantial evidence, which
would have been felony murder if proven, either of which could have led
to the death penalty for Casey.
What the prosecution failed to consider in building up their case is
that all murder involves a degree of culpability. Are all mothers who
use nonprescription substances to put their young children to sleep
always guilty of aggravated child abuse? Are all mothers who place
adhesives over their child's mouth to keep the child quiet always guilty
of aggravated child abuse? If that were the case, there would be a lot
more children in foster homes. Obviously, it depends upon the
circumstances and upon the mental state of the mother at the time, all
of which the prosecution refused to consider in their crusade to convict
Casey Anthony.
Thank God that if anything good comes out of this case, it is that it
will have given Casey Anthony a chance to live a normal life by
confronting her with the real world for the first time in her life, and
force the other members of her family, the police, the prosecution and
the media to get real and start dealing with reality as well.