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Caylee's Law Good Idea or Bad Idea? (24 posts)
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Click for profile 		For those of you from outside North America, perhaps the Casey Anthony trial wasn't as publicized, but in a nutshell Casey Anthony was a young mother (22) with a toddler daughter, Caylee Anthony, who went missing. Casey Anthony went about her life for a month after the child was missing before reporting it. Caylee's remains later tuned up, and people believe that Casey killed her daughter.

Last week, Casey was acquitted of murder charges, but has been charged with lying to officials.

For more info: [urlhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/05/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html[/url]

AS a result, people want to enact "Caylee's Law" which would mean that parents must report a missing child within 24 hours, and the death of a child within 1 hour.

MY QUESTION: What are your views on a potential "Caylee's Law"?
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Click for profile 		So THAT'S who that chick is? I keep seeing pictures of her everywhere....
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Click for profile 		BAD IDEA
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Click for profile 		Oddly enough, that article on Huffington Post is exactly what sparked me to create this thread. However, I know some people believe that the justice system should serve to provide retribution and punishment above other things.
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Click for profile 		Aren't you not considered missing until after 48 hours?
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Click for profile 		yes, but that's how long it takes before an investigation start for an adult missing person, I htink

This is also saying a parent needs to report it within 24 hours, not what the police will do with that info.

This law is intended, I believe, to punish negligent parents.
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Click for profile 		Uh, I think that a child is considered missing immediately.
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Click for profile 		Sounds like a stupid way to punish a lot of innocent, greiving, people. Laws are their to create a safer and more civil society. This law does neither.
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Click for profile 		Agreed, my good man. I do understand how someone might think this law is a good idea in reactiong to what they feel is a horrible injustice, but I really hope that lawmakers do their job and don't act out of gut reaction.
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but I really hope that lawmakers do their job and don't act out of gut reaction.
I've never heard of a politcian that had done that!
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Click for profile 		I don't think having to report a missing child within 24 hours is unreasonable...but I think that having to report the death of a child in an hours time is. I think it takes more than an hour to grieve that kind of loss, and to let go of someone...physically, even if they're dead. I don't know if I expressed that right, it sounds morbid, but I don't think that there would even be a sense of time at that point and that an hour is really short.
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Click for profile 		Tempted to agree with Mack here. Reporting a child missing in 24 hours is easily done...but also age dependant...say, a 4 year old goes missing - thats a kind of report NOW. But a 14 year old? Eh I'd give it a while because to be honest, 14 year olds are a bit crazy. The death of a child? Wellll thats a bit unusual because if the childs died in natural circumstances (S.I.D for example) then, like Mack says, time ceases to exist. The first hour would be spent just in shock I imagine...

So I guess I feel its a case by case situation. But the death of a child again, in 24 hours isnt unreasonable.

In this particular case...how young was the child? Could the mother not have been suffering with Post Traumatic Stress/Post Natal Depression? I've heard of people doing even weirder shit...
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Click for profile 		There are photos of her partying and living it up. She also told a series of elaborate lies to police to basically lead them in the totally wrong direction. Casey Anthony is, if not a murderer, or accessory to, a deplorable mother and lowly human being that deserves a lot of nasty stuff in her future. The Huffpost article makes great sense though, and mass, continent-wide waves of vigilante justice sentiments are scary in any situation. I even have some of those feelings toward this woman myself but have to regularly counter it with logic, and that article helped.

Agree with Mack and Beth though, the 24 hours thing sounds a lot more reasonable (in certain situations...which is the whole problem overall) than the 1 hour thing. That's just ridiculous and the kid is already dead anyway so what does it matter?
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Click for profile 		The child was 2 years old.

Also, at first look, I totally agree that 24 hours seems lenient to report a child has gone missing.

However, I don't think this law actually adds anything, other than a way to punish more people who may be innocent.

For example, what about a 7 year old child who's parents are seperated, but on ok terms. If one parent expects the other to pick the child up from school, and the other forgets/has something happen that causes them to forget. If this kid just plays in the park with a friend or wanders away, how should the parents be charged?

Yes, the parent who forgot made a mistake, but does that mistake deserve jail time? My dad has forgotten to come get me after soccer, and nothing happened. So it was fine. I don't think that a strict law on the amount of time will change a parent's likelyhood of reporting a missing child. Except make some people who have teens freak out and call anything their 16 year old doesn't answer the phone for an hour.
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Click for profile 		I also think that the vast majority of parents who have the forsight to worry about this law, are the types of people who would be reporting a missing child as soon as they were sure he or she was actually missing and not hiding in the basement or something


And yeah, Casey Anthony was a deplorable mother for sure, atleast, in that last month. But I don't think this law would do anything to have saved her kid. And she can be convicted of other things. I think they should be looking into parental negligence charges as well, personally..

[This post edited by Un-Jelli on 14 July 2011 ]

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Click for profile 		You're right, the law will only serve to punish people further, sometimes undeservingly, and all anyone really wants is to punish CASEY ANTHONY, and their rage is being misguided into this effort.
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Click for profile 		Yeah, I had to really stop and look at what some lawyers were saying before I realised that this was a kind of pointless new law. Although, I did see how the hour limit for the death of a child would be problematic.

I do think that maybe there is a way you can look at existing laws that prevent/punish parental negligence to try and prevent something like this happening in the future. But not knowing the legal system (here or in the US) to that depth, I can't tell you how.
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Click for profile 		It's also operating under the assumption that this sort of thing totally happens all the time, when it really doesn't. It's just that Casey Anthony is so well-publicized that everyone's screaming for a law against this ridiculousness.

It's too easy to screw up a law like this and put innocent people in jail, and I think the people who want vigilante justice have forgotten that our justice system is designed so that Casey Anthony should have walked, and did.
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Click for profile 		Have been thinking....is that 1hr slot after discovery of "dead" child.....because from a personal point of view....no matter how "dead" Jenova-Belle was, I'd be ringing an ambulance whilst attempting to revive her myself....I don't understand how that wouldnt be normal?
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Click for profile 		I don't know about this really, but surely if it is intended to punish people like this woman then it's pointless.Exceptional circumstances aside, I'd imagine all parents would report their child missing as soon as they knew. Who exactly is this 24 hour thing targeting?
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