Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Thoughts on The Casey Anthony Trial Correspondence from A reader


                                
As I am sure everyone knows or has at least heard of the Casey Anthony trial as to it was     all over headlines, news stations, and practically took over the media for quite a while. Casey Anthony, a 22-year old women who lived in Orlando Florida was accused of murdering her 2-year old daughter Caylee Anthony.
They found Caylee tied up in trash bags in the woods about a block or so from Miss Anthony’s home, Caylee’s mouth was duck taped shut. Caylee had been missing for 2 months before her mother Casey had admitted to her own mother that Caylee was “missing.”
Although the jury came to a verdict which was proven innocent and the case as beyond a reasonable doubt. There simply was not enough hard cold evidence that Casey had in fact killed her 2-year old Caylee. The prosecutor did not plead his case very well. His one point that he made over and over again had been that Casey partied a lot, and needed her free time. She did not need the responsibility of a child, when she was in fact still a child herself. They had pictures of Casey out at a club dancing and drinking the night away, while her 2 year old daughter had been missing. 
This reader thought that there was more going on in this case than all the media attention that it has been getting. They are saying that the media “viciously” attacked Casey Anthony on her liberation, reproductive rights, critical thinking, and her legal rights. Just like they have every other women in the united states.  
In the reports they had found they have no evidence that Miss Anthony had been distant in her daughters life, resentful, had ever hit her, or just the fact that she was not a playing loving mother. They are saying that there in fact was not enough evidence in this case to even say that Caylee had been murdered. They weren’t quite sure how Caylee had died, much less that her mother Casey had done it. 
After the verdict all the jurors involved in this case that let Casey “get away with murder”  are now in danger. Some have even received death threats. America thought that this was an outrage that they had let her get away with this. Although American didn’t put in to perspective that the jurors had not seen all the media coverage, all the banting and slaughtering that every news station, every reporter, everyone had given Casey. All the jurors had seen were the cold hard facts of the case. 
The media was forcing the idea that Casey was an abusive parent, a murder. They think this case was never about “Justice For Caylee” which a lot of the reporters had been calling this case. That this case was more of an incessantly. They are trying to say that young mothers are more than likely known for the child-abuse. That the mothers these days only care about themselves and “partying.”
In Florida they said that children die from abuse at a rate of four kids a week. Yet the system still allows no money to social programs that will help this situation. A reader from this leader corresponded as so. “They really do not give a damn about the suffering and deaths of thousands of children. But this death offered an opportunity for a national morality play about evil women/bad mothers, and for whipping up hysteria against the fundamentals of due process and justice, and that was in line with the overall atmosphere the system is actively creating right now. And that is why Caylee's death gave rise to the reactionary spectacle that is still unfolding at this moment.     

4 comments:

  1. Although I do not agree, I think that Casey Anthony did in fact kill her two-year old daughter. This is just the articles opinion.

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  2. Hi Morgan,

    We are just starting out so I want to help you so that your responses/essay are a bit more coherent (in the sense of clarity). You don't want to say it was the article's opinion -- essays don't have opinions, the authors of the essays do, so refer directly to the author by name. Also clearly outline what their opinions are and then clearly state what you think/believe in regards to their opinions/evidence.

    Remind me and I will show you how to create hyperlinks like this: Thoughts on Casey Anthony Trial

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  3. number your responses (this should be response #2)

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