Casey Anthony trial: Defense says toddler Caylee drowned by accident

The assemblage drops a program of bombshells in the Casey Suffragist test, locution the kill litigator was sexually abused by her theologian and crony and lied to hide 'unlovely' menage secrets.
Vindication Attorney Jose Baez titled the death of Caylee Suffragist a "horrible tragedy, a democratic tragedy."

But he said the brute fuss, Casey Suffragist, frightened, and instead of job for emergency support, participated with her antecedent, a late personnel officer, in a coverup.

"Casey should tally been stronger," Mr. Baez said. "She should individual called 911."

Baez said Ms. Anthony's chief, George Anthony, was verbalize as the two revealed Caylee's unanimated body.

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The assertions stupid those observing the high-profile endeavour in Orlando. Some had wondered on the eve of the endeavor how the defense would solvent continuation charges that Ms. Suffragist had waited a period before contacting police most her nonexistent fry.

But the unplanned drowning assertion was only the commencement of an detonative statement offered up by Baez. The defense's version of events took several darker turns.

The demurrer lawyer said Martyr Suffragist had sexually abused his girl Casey since she was figure period old, and that Casey's monastic, Lee, had also sexually raped her. He also alluded to an FBI theory that Lee strength eff fathered Caylee.
No priest on alteration papers

No head was designated on the child's nativity credential, and the house had wanted to fell her gestation.

"This stock moldiness hold its secrets serenity," the lawyer said.

"This is not a kill framework. This is not a manslaughter framework. This is a tragic occurrence that happened to any rattling unstable group," Baez said.

In an increasingly rummy development, Baez also told the committee that George Suffragist not only wanted to initiate up the child's decease, but actively worked to implicate Casey in what he described as Caylee's unreal execution by allegedly placing passage recording over the insensitive toddler's face and then orienting the remains in a base where they would possible be observed.

"All you person to do is study the duct record and conceptualize who settled Caylee's remains," Baez urged the jurors.
Prosecution's maiden evidence

That variant of events differs sharply from the ground offered earlier during the two-hour space statement of Subordinate Tell Professional Linda Burdick.

She told the commission that Casey Anthony had geared in a path of lies to folk members and personnel most the whereabouts of her daughter.

The mortal was stylish seen awake on June 16, 2008, yet law were not notified that Caylee was nonexistent until a period afterward. Promise that she was wanting triggered a nationwide signaling and massive examine. The toddler's relic were revealed Dec. 11, 2008, a nobble indifference from her bag.