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Caylee Anthony Law to be Introduced in Omaha

Posted: July 15, 2011

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A Nebraska lawmaker has joined the flood of politicians promising to offer Caylee’s Law proposals in their state legislatures.

Omaha Senator Pete Pirsch announced on Thursday that he will introduce a version of the new law, named for Caylee Anthony, the Florida 2-year-old whose mother, Casey Anthony, was acquitted July 5 in her murder.

The proposed legislation, which would make it a felony for parents or caretakers to withhold reporting a child’s disappearance for more than 24 hours, is being thoroughly researched by Pirsch and other Nebraska  law makers who wish to fairly implement the child-protecting policy.

“The death of a child under such circumstances is not very common”, said Senator Pirsch in a news release. “But Caylee’s case shows us it does happen. It is important that we have adequate laws in place to deter someone acting to hide the murder of a child, whether that person committed the murder himself or not.”

While concealing the death of a child is already a crime in the “corn-husker state,” their research has revealed that there are currently no laws in place pertaining to reporting a death.

In addition to Nebraska, news reports show that as many as 20 other states – California, Ohio, and Kentucky to name a few – are looking at similar Caylee’s law legislation.

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Posted: July 15, 2011
Michael Söze

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67 Archived Responses to “ Caylee Anthony Law to be Introduced in Omaha ”

  1. Sandy Merchant
    Jul 15, 2011

    I went to change.org, but didn't find the petition so sign for Caylee's law. what page is it on?

  2. Jennifer Hart Thompson
    Jul 15, 2011
  3. Heather Hetrick
    Jul 15, 2011
  4. Gina Groth
    Jul 15, 2011

    This is great….a law implemented to protect these babies!

  5. Darlene Goldstein
    Jul 15, 2011

    that women should have been executed for killing her daughter and whom ever helped her to be set free is just as guilty as she is. someone should have stood up better than he did to make sure that caylees murderer which was her mother be brought to justice….

  6. Darlene Goldstein
    Jul 15, 2011

    people and children have to die be murdered before the laws change…….that's really sad….

  7. Barbara Lee Weatherspoon
    Jul 15, 2011

    Personally I believe this whole story is a show…….yes a child died but I think there is so much about it is a freaking joke. First of all George Anthony knows how Caylee died. He and Cindy both know and are willing to do whatever it takes to play along with Casey. George Anthony knows what buttons to push afterall he has worked with the police department. He knows about forensics and death and fingerprints and DNA, all those things that matter when trying to solve a crime. He knows how the law works. Who the hell do U think was advising Casey through the whole ordeal? George knew deflection, run-around, and lying to the police would give he and Casey time to come up with a plan. Not only to come up with a plan but let enough time go by and the legal system wouldn't be able to prove anything. They had everything to gain by the lies and smoke. Be it an accident or a murder I believe a beautiful little girl died and those closest and dearest to her have preyed upon it. It is disgusting and I believe the mama and the grandparents should all go to jail.

  8. So what happens when you leave your kid with its daddy and he runs off then you find out a week later, when you're suppose to pick up your kid, that they've gone missing? Are you going to be held responsible if you call saying you just found out five minutes ago that they've been gone for a week?

  9. I wondered the same thing, Amber. Lawyers have a saying, "hard cases make bad law." Chances are if this is implemented, this is EXACTLY the kind of case we'd see, since Caylee Anthony's murder was such an aberration. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_cases_make_bad_law)

  10. Dennis Christensen
    Jul 15, 2011

    This law is way overdue!

  11. Anonymous
    Jul 15, 2011

    Babarab, what in the world are you talking about? Did you watch the trial as well as pay attention for the case for the past 3 years? George was a traffic cop many years ago – way before DNA, but anyway- he had NO idea what happened to Caylee. Watch the jailhouse tapes with him talking to Casey — he did NOT know.. This was NOT an accident. Casey murdered Caylee..by herself.. she threw the body in the woods by herself.. When the neighbor saw Casey's car backed into the drive way for two days after the death — Casey was alone.. George was NOT there. When Casey asked the neighbor, Brian Burner, to borrow his shovel – she was alone and George and Cindy's cars weren't at home… Casey did this alone.. Don't slander the only member of the Anthony has been remotely honest — George Anthony… There is NO evidence he was involved.. There is tons of evidence that Casey was the only perp. You sound like you didn't keep up with the trial at all.

  12. Anonymous
    Jul 15, 2011

    The reason there was no DNA is because the trashbag, duct tape, etc – were all out in the elements; heat and rain – for almost 6 months. Any chance at getting DNA was a lost cause. Even if Casey's fingerprints were all over it —meaning, she didn't use gloves… the DNA and fingerprints would have been long gone by the time Caylee's body was found. Casey giving the run around to police provided enough time for the evidence to deteriorate and the entire body to decompose until it was nothing but bones.. luckily there was still some bone marrow, so a DNA match could happen.

  13. GREAT….. MORE LAWS!

  14. i agree casey should have gotten the death penalty. but someone might kill her when she gets out of jail. so many people hate her now. but it doesn't matter when judgement day comes god will be sending her to hell

  15. Noelle Brahimi
    Jul 15, 2011

    Its when you realize that they are missing that you are supposed to report them (for your example, when the mom goes to pick up the kid and the kid isn't there, then she is responsible for reporting the child missing within 24 hours). Here's the excerpt from the Caylee's Law's petition:
    "The Caylee's Law petition calls for establishing two new federal offenses: the failure of a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker to notify law enforcement of a missing child within 24 hours, and the failure to report the death of a child within one hour of discovery."

  16. How does anyone prove when they realized something?

  17. Anonymous
    Jul 15, 2011

    Amberand Kim, why would you wait a week to speak to your kids if they are with the other parent? I mean . . . REALLY?!

  18. Noelle Brahimi
    Jul 15, 2011

    I have a son, believe me, if I didn't talk to him or hear from his dad every day, I would know something is wrong. Besides, when you went to pick the kid up and he/she wasn't there, where do you think the kid would be? How would you NOT know where your kid is? Parents, for the most part (even more so when the kids are younger), know where their children are and have a way to reach them.

  19. That was just an example…

  20. Amen to that Barbara I agree with you 100 percent.

  21. Noelle Brahimi
    Jul 15, 2011

    I understand, I'm just saying, you would know when your child is "missing", and as soon as you realized that, this law would require that you need to report it within 24 hours (which any normal person would do).

  22. Anonymous
    Jul 15, 2011

    It is sad that a child has to die before a law is implemented. However, Caylee did not die in vain and others may be saved because of her. We will probably never know what really happened, but I feel much better for our children that in the future someone will be held accountable. I personally think Caylee's entire family was responsible for her death and they will have to account for that some day.

  23. casey's ego will explode now that she has gotton away with murder. She will get hers just like OJ did.

  24. When will they pass a law that we can eat babies?

  25. All I know is that if this had happen here in Texas Casey would be on deathrow no if and buts about Texas does not play when it comes to our children this was an open and shut case nd these fools let the murderer go o well but u know what she has to live wit herself for the rest of her life since they culdnt convict her her conscious will nd it will eat her alive.

  26. Ronald Yates
    Jul 15, 2011

    Barbara oh r going to catch holy heck for those comments. My one email account filled with death threats and some idiot showed up at my door to whoop me (he was packed off to cook county jail) for expressing a non-hang the itch view.

  27. Ronald Yates
    Jul 15, 2011

    boy sign a electronic petition that shows u really care uck the kid and all u that scream at that injustice of it all. GET OVER IT. she was found not quilty get a life.

  28. Ronald Yates
    Jul 15, 2011

    if this child had cornrows and ebony skin whose mother collected WIC not one of u would give a crap. I see everyday kids are missing or killed and no one gives two lines in the paper what makes this little white girl so damn special that lynch mobs form for Caylle but not for Shanika.

  29. Ronald Yates
    Jul 15, 2011

    GET OVER IT. she was found not quilty get a life.
    if this child had cornrows and ebony skin whose mother collected WIC not one of u would give a crap. I see everyday kids are missing or killed and no one gives two lines in the paper what makes this little white girl so damn special that lynch mobs form for Caylle but not for Shanika.

  30. Ronald Yates
    Jul 15, 2011

    oh and i am an old white guy who just admits that race matters and that people need stop getting the real world (their day to day lifes) and the net mixed up together.

  31. Ronald Yates
    Jul 15, 2011

    and a federal law to boot when my sisters and I made big fuss over what one did to the other mom used to say "don't make federal case out of it" god now everything is federal law.

  32. Jane De Leon
    Jul 15, 2011

    HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW FOR SURE.. NO ONE DOES!

  33. Anonymous
    Jul 15, 2011

    Barbara is right- BOTH parents knew something and ALL THREE of them would be guilty of this felony were it to become law (The new law is fine , I guess, until the police prove themselves to be too stupid to understand and apply it- which is inevitable). The fact that the parents HELPED HIDE the problem for 31 days was plenty to establish reasonable doubt (not to mention there was no cause-of-death evidence). What all the KNEE-JERK IDIOTS on here who hate Casey (and feel so validated by their fellow-haters, who are all just too intellectually incompetent to understand the prosecutors' HUGE mistakes and why THEY f'd up) can't understand is that the JURY was FAR FAR more intelligent than they, with far more integrity and honesty than most people. The prosecution COULD HAVE used their brains and prepared for an intelligent jury but they did not- THEY TOOK IT FOR GRANTED THAT THEY COULD ABUSE THEIR POWER, AND ASK FOR ONLY THE TRUMPED-UP CONVICTION, WHEN THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE OF IT, THEY DID HAVE THE EVIDENCE TO CONVICT ON MANSLAUGHTER AND OTHER SERIOUS CHILD ABUSE BUT THEY CHOSE NOT TO ALLOW FOR THOSE CONVICTIONS, BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEIR CAREERS COULD BENEFIT FROM ALL THIS IGNORANT HATRED IF THEY COULD GET THE DEATH SENTENCE FOR HER. THANK GOD THERE WAS FINALLY A JURY OF 12 SMART PEOPLE WHO CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE'S FREEDOM OUTWEIGHS THE POSSIBILITY OF ONE PERSON 'GETTING AWAY WITH' MURDER – WHICH MAY NOT BE THE CASE, WE WILL NEVER KNOW. BUT they COULD have put Casey away for a long time with a serious conviction of LESS than 1st degree murder- but the prosecutors and public did not want that chance- IT WAS THE CORRUPT PROSECUTORS WHO LET HER GO, YOU STUPID IDIOTS!

  34. Melva Wall Messer
    Jul 15, 2011

    Casey Knows Jane…

  35. Jane De Leon
    Jul 15, 2011

    :) You got it.

  36. RaShonda Harris
    Jul 15, 2011

    @ Margene Louie -You are righ.t OJ thought he got away too. He became more insulant and cocky until one day it all came back haunt him. Thats how it works. You reap what you sow and thats a fact!

  37. RaShonda Harris
    Jul 15, 2011

    @ Kim LaCapria- You have a point. I guess it would be up to the prosecuting attorney to prove that the parent knew the child was missing and failed to report it..but still, this law raises so many questions now!!

  38. Can she just disappear from the face of this earth!

  39. RaShonda Harris
    Jul 15, 2011

    @ vanderbiltjr720 I agree with you. The prosecuting attorneys underestimated the intelligence of the Jury. The jury ruled on the evidence and the law, not on their emotions. The jury did their part, its the law enforcement or the prosecutors who dropped the ball on this case.

  40. Gia Marie
    Jul 15, 2011

    I agree!! well said and so true.

  41. I feel so bad for that little girl, I hope she gets justics someday!

  42. Kristin Garfield
    Jul 15, 2011

    You should have sat on the Jury, "To hell with the evidence" it has to be a conspiracy and the entire family had to be in on it, and yes let's blame George or Cindy, it just "fits" best that way! maybe just maybe there are bad people in this world that do it alone and act out impulsively and bad things happen,One person knows and she is set to go free in a few days, stop playing CSI- my theory fits best!!!

  43. Amen! finaly someone agrees!!!!!!!!!!!

  44. Kristin Garfield
    Jul 15, 2011

    facts can't be bothered with semi- they have to pass blame and assume as evidence

  45. This is such a tragic incident, I heard of caylee 3yrs ago. This story made me love and guard my child even more so that I could imagaine, I think the country is fixated on this story, but seriously it should motivate everyone to help other children Pay more attention and be more observing to other children. Be aware of child abuse, you may not see bruises etc, but you can see the abuse in the eyes of children. When your at a store and you see a child with parents and something does not seem right just by the interaction etc, please please report it! you don't have to know a child personally to get involved people.

  46. Kathy Harrison
    Jul 15, 2011

    She is just nasty and her time will come.

  47. Ron, Let me guess……..You're a lonely old man who lives by yourself with 10 cats cause nobody likes you… You prolly jack off to images of that sick bitch Casey (who by the way, murdered her own daughter), and you prolly want to marry her cause your a sick bastard. Am I right?~~~ Casey Anthony IS GUILTY and we all know it. So YOU get over it and get a life dirtbag. Get off this page if you don't agree with a law for little CAYLEE! Why the hell are u on here then? Just to talk shit to people who want justice for Caylee is my guess, You asshole.

  48. Wow,.. Baez apparently did a good job pointing finger to GA and Cindy. Reading the comment from Barbara,…it's amazed me.. If anyone believe Prosecutor did not have enough proof,.. Let me say that the defense proof NOTHING about the accident nor the molestation, yet those stays in peeps mind…. If it's not for Cindy and GA CALLED 911,… THREE TIMES,.and before that they drove around with Casey in the car to report about the check fraud she did when they realized the sheriff office was close,.. they called THREE TIMES,.. while Casey kept LYING that Caylee was with the nanny,.. and finally Cindy was in so much SHOCKED when she overheard Casey told Lee that Caylee has been missing for 31 days,… it's all in the recording 911 call WE ALL HEARD OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN,…They called 911 to turn Casey in for check fraud,.. not because they assumed Caylee is dead or missing,… don't you people get that? assume GA and Cindy knew Caylee is dead and just wanted to cover up the accident,.. WHY IN THE WORLD THEY CALLED 911.. 3 TIMES! DROVE AROUND TO SHERIFF OFFICE,.. they could just go back to Ohio and pretend nothing happens,..since their friends in Ohio probably never knew about Caylee existence…. apparently there are others and MORE than 12 plus 3 LAZY IDIOTIC MORONs in this world,.. IGNORANT is a TRAGEDY,…

  49. they should call the COMMON F"N SENSE LAW..

  50. I honestly think they should have been able to force Casey to take the stand, I don't see how she should have had a choice in the matter, not that under oathe would mean any difference to her, but just makes me wonder what the attorneys could have gotten out of her. They were pretty brutal, but to the wrong people.

  51. I agree….I have been saying all along she didnt KILL caylee but a terrible accident happened…..it is a show…..and yes George is smarter then all of them……and the attorney was awesome…..the verdict was correct….she was not on trial for anything else BUT murder and she didnt do it…..intentially……..all these sheep out there screaming KILLER KILLER….are funny….they are sheep bababababababa losers to the max

  52. you are one of the sheep Im talking about……you just go along with the crowd……dont have a mind of your own……listen up Casey was found not guily….deal with it…the system worked

  53. you my firend are the BIGGEST loser on Facebook

  54. All I know is there were so many red flags throughout this trial that it's very hard to believe Casey wasn't guilty of something. I just can't get my mind around having a 2 yr. old "missing" and still being able to go out with friends and have a great time partying. Casey will have to live with herself in her own little hell for the rest of her life. Her family, however dysfunctional they seem, will also suffer for the rest of their lives. Little Caylee is in heaven and her short life will not have been in vain. The trial is over and like it or not, we need to stop judging. It won't bring Caylee back.

  55. Your a cold hearted peice of shit! How could anyone just say "fuck the kid" I hope you die you piece of shit!

  56. A child was murdered you dumb heartless piece of shit! (to ronald)

  57. I agree. Barbara doesn't know what she is talking about. I believe that the only thing George is guilty of is having a short affair, and only because he needed comforted. I don't know what Barbara was watching, but it sure wasn't the same thing you and I watched. I have watched since that baby went missing(dead), and not one thing pointed to George. The ONLY thing that he is guilty of besides his affair is loving Casey.

  58. Little Caylee will get her justice. She did not die in vain. Because of her death, many other children will be saved. Regardless of what happened, there was enough circumstantial evidence to convict Casey. There was a big miscarriage of justice. Since she did not answer to Caylee, Casey will have to answer to God. Her place is in jail. She awaits a sad future on the outside.

  59. Talk about what Texas would do….ha. They released a serial killer twice on probatiuon. Yet an 18 yr old charged with attempting a drug purchase gets life with out chance of parole. How is that justice. I do not trust our so called justice system at all.

  60. Sandy Smith
    Jul 15, 2011

    Look at what Huckabee did, He pardoned a convicted killer. The man went to either Washingtpn or Oregon and killed again.

  61. I think this is a good law and feel it should of been a long time go. It's just common sense. The only thing I don't get is this is suppose to be about Caylee. Yet reporting her missing wasn't the issue. She was dead that's why she didn"t report it. So this law doesn't make sense for this case. It is nice though that she will always have something to be remembered by.

  62. RaShonda Harris
    Jul 16, 2011

    lol..priceless..

  63. Dennis Christensen
    Jul 16, 2011

    We need this law in every state!!