Mother Of Missing Florida Girl Charged
Authorities Say The 22-Year-Old Who Waited A Month Before Reporting Her 3-Year-Old Missing Has Lied To Police About The Case
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Casey Anthony wipes tears from her eyes at a bond hearing at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, Fla., on July 22, 2008. The 22-year-old mother reported her daughter missing last week, more than a month after the little girl allegedly disappeared. (AP Photo/Red Huber, Pool)
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This undated photo shows Caylee Marie Anthony, 2, who has been missing more than a month. Her mother, Casey Marie Anthony has been charged with alleged child neglect and providing false information to law enforcement. (AP/Orange County Sheriff's Dept.)
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Play CBS Video Video Search On For Missing Toddler Casey Anthony, an Orlando mother, is being held by police as they search for her missing two-year-old daughter. Lara Spencer talks to Cindy and George Anthony, Casey's parents, and lawyer Jose Baez.
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Video Missing Fla. Toddler Sighted? A witness claims a young girl who approached her family gave her name as Caylee Anthony. Her grandmother Cindy Anthony talks to Lara Spencer about this new information.
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Casey Anthony was formally charged Tuesday with child neglect and filing a false statement. Police have held her on $500,000 bail on those charges since last month. A delay between an arrest and formal charges is typical in Florida as prosecutors build their case.
Prosecution documents did not provide more details about 2-year-old Caylee's disappearance. Prosecutors declined comment because they want to avoid publicity that could lead the trial to be moved.
Police say Anthony lied and didn't report her daughter missing for more than a month.
Her attorney denies the charges and says Anthony believes Caylee is alive.
Last month, prosecutors said in court that Casey Anthony is a person of interest in what is beginning to look like a homicide investigation, though she has not been charged. Sheriff's deputies testified that her car smelled of decomposition, and a cadaver-trained dog noted a smell of human remains there.
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Torture her & the truth will come out. Just attach the wires & let the games begin.
The government should pay women to have their uterus removed.
Maybe Caylee is dead, but maybe she isn''t.
Maybe Casey killed her, but maybe she didn''t.
Whatever the truth and circumstances, this is a very sad situation for all involved.
Not a single one of us outsiders knows what really happened. All we know is what the media tells us.
The one thing we all know for certain is that the media isn''t always a reliable source of information. They often lead us to draw conclusions and make assumptions based on incomplete on inconsistent information.
Truth often defies logic, people sometimes do bizarre things for good reasons, and reality can be far stranger than fiction.
If you hope to know what really happened, then you must wait and see with an open mind.
We may never know what really happened, but, in truth, do we, observers of the circus, really need to know?