Five Things that Concern Me About Casey Anthony

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It’s hard to avoid coverage of the Casey Anthony trial if you live in the United States.  I mean, what a story, right?  Death is never a happy thing, but the senseless murder of a child is one that hits most of us on a visceral level.

And when you add in the possibility that said child’s mother killed her in cold blood, it grows ever more disturbing.

The nearly three-year-old Caylee Anthony disappeared in June of 2008 but was not reported missing until mid-July.  Noteworthy is that the missing child report was made not by Caylee’s mother but by her grandmother.

Before June of 2008, Casey and her young daughter lived in her parents’ Florida home.  After they moved out, Casey made excuses ranging from a busy work schedule to Caylee spending time with a nanny to keep …

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Mom’s Mad That Teacher Taped Teen Daughter’s Mouth Shut

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I always rolled my eyes when my mother started the, “Back when I was a kid …” spiel.  You know what I mean, right?  “I had to walk two miles to school in snowstorms.  Uphill.”  “I had to eat everything that was put in front of me.”  “If I got anything less than an A on my report, my father would have killed me.”

The subject of school brought on a whole new list of woes from my mother.  Evidently if you were really bad, you got hit with a ruler by the teacher or, for especially bad offenses, the wooden paddle in the principal’s office.  My mother avoided these tidbits of corporal punishment doled out in loco parentis because she was a “good child”.

I was not.

By the time I was in school, the ruler and the paddle had given way …

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