The Orlando Case

[Magick1]

Has anyone been following that missing child case in FL at all? I don't want to put the name out here since it is such a huge item on the web.

The mother is a "person of interest" and a bail bondsman posted her bond to let her out to help find her child, but she's not helping anyone at all.

I am just so upset over this whole thing and wondered if anyone else had noticed it or had been paying attention to it at all.

[emeleel]

I haven't been "following" it per se, but one can't help but notice it. In fact, I just now got through reading this morning's story - the bondsman is revoking her bond because of safety issues and she's going back to jail tomorrow. The media crowds are getting to be too much for his people who are doing surveillance on the woman.

And they found traces of decomposition in the trunk of her car, as well as the girl's hair (positively ID'ed). So she might have been heading back to jail anyway.

[mtomm[$]]

The only news program I've seen this on has been Nancy Grace and since I can only watch that for about 5 mins I haven't followed very closely. However, I have formed the opinion that the mother freaks me out.

[lynnzop[$]]

I've read the stories on CNN and when I was in the allergist's office this week, a People Mag had a long article that focused a lot on the grandparents.

IMO, Mom did it, and she's a dirtclod scumbag who deserves the needle.

[theworm[$]]

ok, I've been working 12 hour days and haven't heard anything, so someone PM me a link.

[thinkerlady[$]]

I have heard bits about it, but the last I heard is that the mother isn't helping, and that they were evaluating what was discovered in the trunk. I don't know all the details because I haven't been following it very closely.

[Magick1]

For some reason, I have been sucked into it and I check for updates daily for some reason. It's not the rubber necking type thing when you drive by an accident. I guess seeing the photos of the little one reminded me so much of the babester that it just made me feel connected because of how she looks and it made me feel like she was someone I know.

I know that sounds creepy but have you ever had that with a story online that someone strikes a strong resemblance to someone you know and you feel inclined to check on their progress or updates?

Wormie, there are thousands out there, but I will try to pick up one to send your way quickly.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Is this about the foster child who was missing a couple years ago that started the whole re-do of the Florida child welfare agency?

[emeleel]

Nope, the girl who went missing in June and her mom didn't report her as missing til the next month. Claimed a babysitter kidnapped her. Riiiight.

[lynnzop[$]]

No, and I don't really understand why we have to be talking in code.

This is the story of Caylee Anthony - the little girl from Orlando who's mom didn't report her missing for over a month while she "conducted her own investigation" whilst partying at clubs all over the city.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Hadn't heard a thing about it.

[taurusmoon]

I've not heard about it either.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

I was thinking Rilya Wilson. (She - or probably more likely, her body - hasn't been found.)

[Magick1]

I was just thinking of the search engines picking up on the name and there are just tons of tons of people looking and I wasn't wanting to have it hit this one, in case.

[theworm[$]]

Thanks to those of you who sent me the link.
I had heard nothing about this case. Very sad, indeed.

[amykhar]

Those grandparents are in serious denial, in my book. I've been following this on CNN.com

[conradd]

It's a heartbreaking case and the grandmother is as much to blame as Caylee's mother. If the reports I've read are correct, the mom wanted to give her up for adoption and the grandmother wouldn't let her. I'm guessing that whatever happened to Caylee wasn't deliberate but was probably due to gross negligence on the part of a mother who shouldn't have been trusted with a dog, let alone a child.

[amykhar]

One bad thing about all the attention this case has gotten in the media. Let's say for argument's sake that the mother sold the kid or gave her away instead of killing her. With all the publicity, I could imagine that whomever had the child would kill her, knowing that if she was found alive they would be in trouble, but if she were found dead, authorities would assume the mother did it.

[Magick1]

When reading up on the 400+ pages of the interviews, I had one huge hope that the child was a alive. There was a mom and child flying from Orlando back to Atlanta and they said that a little girl came up to the son, asked to pet their puppy in a carrier.

The boy asked the little girl's name, and she told them Caylee Marie. Then, the mom came over seeing the little girl without a parental figure nearby and asked her name and she told her this again and that she was 3, corrected it to 2 and a 1/2 and spoke with them, flew on the same flight and they had the row number they sat in and reported it all.

I still am trying to keep a flicker of hope that she is still with us.

[magenta321]

I've been following it somewhat... how can you not... it's like you don't want to know because it's too horrific, but yet, it's so horrific that you can't help but want to know. Maybe that doesn't make sense, but that's how I am feeling.

Mom was out partying the night Caylee went "missing." Cadaver dogs smelled decomposition in the trunk. There is a stain in the trunk, and positive DNA match too. I had hoped that the mother had just sold her, but once I heard all of this it seemed clear she didn't do anything that "humane."

[Prepoia[$]]

Oh, no. Being sold (which is usually to a sex ring for children) is not always better. It may be a slower death but it is a death that's prolonged by violence and pain. Seldom is a child sold to loving people that want a child.

[magenta321]

I would have hoped it was to a family that wanted a child but didn't want to go through the legal trouble of adoption. I don't want that for the little girl, or any child, but it's a lot better than thinking that her mom killed her.

If I could have my way, this would go back to where her mother wanted to put her up for adoption, and she would actually go through with it. It's unfortunate that anyone would want to put their child up for adoption, but generally, adoptive parents want a child and do a great job raising the adopted child as their own.

This whole story sucks.

[Magick1]

Yes, the whole thing sucks, big time.
But, the police have arrested the mom again (wonder why, her bond was paid). The news is saying she was charged with the neglect charges that I thought were against her in the beginning.