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Why We Care About Caylee Anthony
October 15, 2008 at 5:27 PM by Cafe Cynthia - Comments (14)
I must admit, until the recent news yesterday about Caylee Anthony's mother being indicted for murder, I hadn't been following the case very closely. I was (am) still trying to recover from Madeleine McCann, and wanted to keep my distance from yet another heartbreaking story of a lost child.
When 4-year-old Maddy McCann was abducted a year and a half ago, I think I must have checked Google News five or six times a day for the first six months, hoping for word that she'd finally been found alive. She was the same age as my son at the time, and the story sent tremors through me, brought me to tears, kept me up at night. My husband thought Maddy's disappearance was sad, for sure, but he couldn't understand the depth of my connection with a family thousands of miles across the ocean, with a girl I never knew.
Now with more details of Caylee's disappearance coming out, the fascination is back. Why put yourself through this? my husband asks. Why obsess about something you can't change?
Good question.
One I decided to ask 3_4_me, owner of the Where Is Caylee Anthony Group. Most members have been with the membership-required group since day one, following every detail of Caylee's disappearance.
3_4_me says the group provides a place for moms to talk about the case, get feelings out, and help each other through. But members also share ways to show your own kids you love them and spend more time being with each other. "Discussing the case makes you hold your kids a little tighter in that hug, and to just be happy
with things," she says.
I think I can finally give my husband his answer.
Comments:
Okay, you made me cry. So sad about little Caylee.
What a great post ! I do appreciate you contacting me in this ! You just want to pray for Caylee and everyone involved or following this story !
Caylee Anthony.......Rest in peace. Hope her lying mother gets what she deserves.
i have been watching the case since it started. it is so bazaar and I can't stay away from it. My husband does not understand either.
But I appreciate you talking about it because it is on the mind of many Moms on this site. I have to try to distance my self from it because it does effect me so much. But almost everyday I post on the Caylee Anthony post. It helps me to know so many others are affected. and It makes me feel bad for all the other missing children that aren't getting the attention this case is.
What a topic Yeah I'm w/ you I heard of the case but wasn't all in to it but all of sudden I am. Crazy I can't believe that mother Casey is going through this could you imagine. All I can think is that little girl has to be somewhere how can someone totally disappear. I don't want to believe the worst. To be honest w/ you I'm still in shock about Lacy Peterson I cant get over that one and now this case what is our world coming to? I just don't get it.
I heard about the Caylee Anthony case on the doctor Phil show. I don't generaly watch the news it's to depressing. I was so incredibly angry by how a mother could do such a horrible thing. She didn't even report her daughter was missing her mom did it doesn't make since any mother would be frantic to find their child missing but not Casey I want to scream what's wrong with you. She has shown no remorse or concern for her daughter whereabouts to me that says guilty. I pray that little girl is found safe and sound but since I fear that is not the case I hope her Mother is held fully responsible though no punishment could be handed out that will ever equal the crime.
I believe the mom did it with the grandma's help. i think they both should get the chair.
If i could explain what should done 2 her mother & not offend anyone i would but we all know what i'm thinking or have thought. I don't understand-having 4 kids myself-how someone could ever do something like that.Makes me hold my kids a little tighter.May that poor little one rest in piece.
I have followed this case since it's sad beginning. I think one of the reasons that it grabs people the way that it does, besides the fact that a beautiful, innocent baby is missing, is that there have been SO many puzzling twists and turns to the story. The way Casey Anthony has behaved is beyond anything that almost any other Mother could possibly imagine. It's hard to understand the mindset of all involved, and really, I hope to never. I just wish that precious Caylee would be found so that justice be served and hearts can rest.
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My daughter is the same age and looks very much like Caylee -- this story breaks me heart every time I hear something new...since this isn't really the place for it - I won't voice my opinions of the 'mother' -- but this story (and others like it) I think make us realize even more how fragile our lives are and how quickly they can be shattered...
beachmamaof2 Oct. 15, 2008 at 7:17 PM