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A Web of Deceit . . .
Where is 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony?
Cindy Anthony, Caylee’s grandmother, and the Florida Police Dept. would like to know.
The one person, who could possibly shed some light on Caylee’s disappearance, her 22-year-old mother, is not cooperating with authorities, and has spun a web of deceit, that authorities simply can’t trust her.
“We can’t compel Casey Anthony to give us more information,” Orange County Sheriff Sgt. John Allen said. “She has a right to not talk to us about it. But certainly as the mother, I would hope she would be willing to give us whatever information she had to help us find her child.”
Casey Anthony reported her daughter Caylee missing at the insistence of her mother. Caylee’s grandmother had grown weary of the inconsistencies in her daughter’s story and wanted desperately to see her granddaughter.
Casey Anthony told officials that she dropped off her daughter on June 9 at the baby sitter—a woman she identified as Zenaida Gonzalez, but when she returned to pick Caylee up, the child was missing.
Investigators found a woman by that name, but Ms. Gonzalez claims that she never met Anthony or her daughter Caylee.
Authorities continue to look for other women with a similar name.
“As we continue to investigate this, we find more inconsistencies in the mother’s story,” said Sgt. Allen. “So we continue to look for witnesses.”
The Sheriff’s Office arrested Caylee’s mother on Wednesday, July 16. Casey Anthony has been charged with child neglect, providing false information to officials, and obstructing a criminal investigation.
Orange County Judge John Jordan denied Anthony bail and denounced her strange behavior.
“You left your 2-year-old child with a person who does not exist, at an apartment you cannot identify,” Jordan said. “You lied to your parents about your child whereabouts. You cared so little about your child.”
Casey Anthony simply nodded as the judge spoke.
Anthony’s trail of lies has her family and officials baffled. Why would a woman with no criminal record, refuse to assist authorities in finding her missing daughter?
Judge Jordan ordered a mental-health evaluation.
Is Caylee Marie Anthony still alive?
“At this point, there is no indication that Caylee is deceased,” Capt. Angelo Nieves said. “We don’t know where she is. Our concern is for the child and to locate her.”
Teams from the Orange County Sherriff’s Office brought digging equipment and cadaver dogs to the home of Cindy Anthony. Investigators moved a playhouse from where it was situated and checked the ground beneath it.
Detectives are following up on any lead in order to unravel the web of lies that Casey Anthony has spun.
· Early June . . . Casey Anthony tells her mother that her job was sending her to Tampa for a few days.
· Anthony then changes the story and tells her mother that she would be vacationing with friends and taking Caylee with her.
· June 9 . . . Casey Anthony claims she left Caylee Marie with a baby-sitter.
· Casey Anthony informs detective that she worked for Universal Studious and coworkers could vouch for her.
· The baby-sitter’s apartment where Casey Anthony claims she dropped her daughter off in June has been vacant for five months.
· The woman that Anthony claimed to be the baby-sitter (Zenaida Gonzalez) has no prior knowledge of her or Caylee.
As Cindy Anthony tries to find solace in the confines of her granddaughter’s room . . . adorned with Winnie the Pooh decorations and pictures of Caylee, she prays that the empty chair at the tiny teatime table, the bed lined with SpongeBob and teddy bears—won’t remain that way much longer.
Bradley Booth/Freelance Commercial Writer/Author
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