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Let's pass Caylee's Law In Wisconsin

Posted by Kevin Fischer on July 12, 2011

A Wisconsin version of Caylee's Law is being introduced in the state Legislature. It's a great move.

First, some background.

Little Caylee Anthony was missing. She was probably already dead.

Her mother didn’t report her missing child.

Instead, Casey Anthony partied and carried on, for a month.
















Above photos 1-3: Orlando Sentinel from Florida Attorney General's Office that were evidence in the Casey Anthony trial. Photos 4-5: The Daily Mail


From the Huffington Post:

“Casey Anthony's former boyfriend and his roommates told jurors today that the then-22-year-old mother entered a ‘Hot Body’ contest and showed no signs of anxiety or depression just four days after the date her lawyer claims her daughter Caylee drowned.

Nathan Lezniewicz, a 25-year-old man….testified that he never saw Anthony upset or depressed and he mentioned a trip to a nightclub on June 20, 2008, at which Anthony participated in a ‘hot body contest’ during a nightclub promotion.

‘She always seemed to be having a good time. I mean, she's not an introvert,’ Lezniewicz said.

The state called two former ‘shot girls’ from Fusion Ultra Lounge, a nightclub in Orlando. The girls, Jamie Realander and Erica Gonzalez, described Anthony as their manager at the club.

‘She was normal,’ Gonzalez said. ‘She was like us. She had a good time, treated everyone with kindness’.”


The Daily Mail reported:

“Casey Anthony showed no signs of grief parading in a 'hot body' contest at a Florida nightclub four days after her two-year-old daughter went missing, the court heard during her sensational murder trial.

In the shocking climax to the high-profile trial, the jury today accepted the claims of Anthony's defence team that Caylee drowned in the Anthony family swimming pool on June 16.

But witnesses, including Anthony's flatmates and boyfriend, revealed to the court how the single mother from Orlando carried on as normal in June 2008, showing no signs of distress, anxiety or depression and never mentioning her daughter's disappearance.

During the month that passed between Caylee last being seen alive and her grandparents calling the police, Anthony enjoyed wild parties joining friends on nights out to local bars and clubs.

On June 20, four days after Caylee drowned, Anthony went to Fusion, a restaurant and nightclub in Orlando, dressed up in a clinging blue-knit dress.

'She was in a Hot Body contest…She was partying and having a good time, drinking, dancing,' said Roy 'Clint' House, who shared an apartment with Anthony's then boyfriend, where she spent much of that month.

A prosecutor asked whether Anthony had seemed worried, depressed, withdrawn, sad, angry, scared or had voiced concern about her daughter. 'No sir,' he replied.

'She seemed like a fun party girl,' said Mr House.

Later that month, Anthony visiting a tattoo parlour to get Italian phrase 'Bella Vita' tattooed on her back, which means the 'good life'.”

Here's how The Mother of the Year shows up for court.






When the verdict was announced, most of America went into a collective rage (Americans tend to get angry when what they believe to be a murderer gets off, especially if the victim is a 2-year old).



AP photo


Across America, legislators in a number of states immediately started working on legislation.

Caylee’s Law they called it and the efforts in the states didn’t take long.

Failure to report a missing child would now be a serious crime.

Such legislation is needed to prevent future travesties of justice from clueless juries like the one in the Anthony trial (OMG, we would have loved to come back with a guilty verdict, but you know we just couldn’t see it after 400 pieces of evidence). Good grief, were they all TSA workers?

Someone would surely come forward in Wisconsin to propose a bill and I’m not surprised by news reports that it’s state Representative Joel Kleefisch who’s always been a tough on crime lawmaker.

The idiot jury in Orlando absolved Casey Anthony of aggravated child abuse charges. If not reporting your missing child after a month isn’t aggravated child abuse, I don’t know what is.

In Wisconsin, it is not a crime to refuse to inform authorities of knowledge of a missing child. That must change.

It will be revealing to see who sponsors and votes for Kleefisch’s legislation. How could you vote against this bill? I’m not surprised that some will because there are always those who belong to a certain political party that will always side with the criminal and not the victim. Need I say any more?