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She's "not guilty", so would you let Casey Anthony babysit your children?
The countdown to freedom is on. Casey Anthony will be released from jail Sunday after being acquitted on charges that she murdered her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
The outcry after the verdict has been so intense that some are worried for Casey’s safety after her release. Particularly if she chooses to appear on television and make the usual media rounds.
John Kendall, a former U.S. marshal who worked in witness protection, says Anthony will be at high risk for the next few months.
“Is she going to make the tour? Talk shows? Book signings? Public appearances? If she does, then she is at an incredible risk,” Kendall tells USA Today. “If I was handling this case, we would relocate her somewhere else in the country, change her identity and change her appearance.”
Anthony’s plans are not known. Her lawyers did not respond to requests for comment. Although her lawyer, Dorothy Clay Sims did respond to a pretty interesting question from Joy Behar. If she believes in Casey’s innocence so strongly, would she let Casey babysit her children? Sims answer is fascinating. Instead of me writing about it and my opinion, I’ll just let you watch and then we can talk about it in the comments:
Also, would you let Casey Anthony babysit your children?
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Troubled child star Lindsay Lohan will serve 90 days in jail for probation violation, Perez Hilton reports. Her stint begins July 20, and will be followed by an additional 90 days of court-ordered in-patient rehab.
Every celebrity gossip-monger in the country saw this one coming. There’s a collective sigh of relief going out that we’re all writing about her jail sentence and not her obituary, as well as some unspoken disappointment that she’ll be locked away from further opportunities for public embarrassment for several months. What will the paparazzi do without their favorite falling star?
For moms all over the country, though, there’s a bigger problem: what to tell their kids?
Someone call a Hollywood producer, because you can’t write plots this thick.
Laura Silsby and her nine volunteers jailed in Haiti for trying to rustle up kids for some sort of hotel room orphanage have sought legal counsel … from a suspected child trafficker.
Scrolling through status updates on Facebook the other day, I saw one that stopped me short:
“I saw on the Internet that Haiti is without a government. To help out, I am donating one Obama, one Pelosi, one Reid, one Frank and two Clintons. They may keep them permanently!”
Not only is it way, way to soon (forever, in fact, is too soon) to make jokes about Haiti, it’s also factually incorrect: Haiti is still Haiti; the country is not up for grabs.
Despite what a group of do-gooder Americans may think.
File this under, “the punishment doesn’t fit the crime.” Strike that; file this under, “You clearly should not be a parent unless your job is to raise a serial killer.”
38-year-old mom Lynn Middlebrooks Geter was arrested after she forced her 12-year-old son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as a punishment for earning a bad grade.
As a mother argues that it won’t do any good to “throw away” her son, who’s accused of setting fire to another boy, a New York Times editorial is arguing for the de-criminalization of juveniles. Continue reading »
Remember labor? How you felt shackled to your hospital bed by that annoying monitor strapped to your belly and all those frustrating wires? Oh yeah, and the I.V. too.
Now imagine all that plus real shackles on your wrists and ankles, a chain across your pregnant belly. That’s how some moms in state prisons give birth, and it could be putting them and their babies at risk. Governor Paterson is expected to put a ban on the practice in all New York state prisons this week.
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