Casey Anthony Blames Her Father for Daughter Caylee's Death
New details have emerged regarding the upcoming docuseries centered on Casey Anthony, the Florida woman acquitted in her two-year-old daughter’s mysterious, unsolved murder.
"Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies," will be
released later this month and features Anthony’s first on-camera interview
since she was found not guilty of her daughter’s murder. In the three-part
docuseries, the now-36-year-old provided new details and pinned the blame on
her father, much like defense attorneys did during her 2011 trial, according to
People.com.
"He handed her to me. Said it was my fault. That I
caused it.
George and Cindy Anthony did not immediately respond to
emailed requests for comment.
According to the report, Anthony said she and her daughter
had been resting together in her bed on June 16, 2008, when the mother
"wasn’t feeling that great."
"I was awoken by [my father] shaking me and asking me
where Caylee was," she said, according to People. "That didn't make
sense. She would never even leave my room without telling me."
She reportedly went on, "I immediately started looking
around the house. I go outside, and I'm looking to see where she could
be."
She then spotted her father "standing there with
her."
"She was soaking wet," she reportedly said.
"He handed her to me. Said it was my fault. That I caused it. But he
didn't rush to call 911, and he wasn't trying to resuscitate her. I collapsed
with her in my arms."
Caylee was "heavy" and "cold," Anthony
said.
George Anthony then changed his demeanor and took Caylee
from his daughter, Casey said.
"He immediately softens his tone and says, ‘It’s going
to be ok,’" she said, according to the report. "I wanted to believe
him. He took her from me, and he went away."
She said she did not believe her daughter had drowned, and
added that the above-ground pool had "no ladder" and there was "no
way for her to shimmy up."
She added, "There's no way to explain that, unless
[George] put her in the pool to cover up what he did."
Anthony then left and spent the next 31 days with her
boyfriend, but kept quiet about what she had seen, according to the report. She
claimed she "genuinely believed that Caylee was still alive."
"My father kept telling me she was okay," she
said, according to the report. "He told me what to do. I tried to act as
normal as I could."
Anthony further recalled, according to People, how her
father would "put a pillow over my face and smother me to knock me
out."
She reportedly added that she believed her father had done
the same to Caylee.
"That's what I think about," she reportedly said.
"I wish every day I had said something to someone about something. Maybe
then things would be different."
Caylee’s grandmother reported her missing on July 15, 2008,
weeks after she was said to have been last seen on June 16. Anthony said her
daughter was with a babysitter when they disappeared.
Anthony was initially arrested for child neglect, but was
later charged with more serious counts, including first-degree murder, after
Caylee’s remains were discovered on Dec. 11.
After months of speculation surrounding the case and a trial
that lasted over a month, a jury deliberated for 11 hours before finding
Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and
aggravated child abuse. She was convicted of lying to law enforcement.
Anthony’s defense attorney, Jose Baez, argued that Caylee
accidentally drowned and her death was then covered up. Prosecutors argued that
Casey Anthony suffocated the girl using chloroform and then covered the
toddler's mouth with duct tape.
Caylee’s disappearance and death, and the criminal
investigation and trial that followed, gripped the nation for years and
captured headlines for days at a time.
"Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies," is expected
to air on Peacock on Nov. 29.
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