Losing Your Toddler...

Carole Moore
Missing Persons Contributor
Officer.com

Isn’t the same as losing your keys. I don’t usually go off on people, but in the case of missing toddler Caylee Anthony, I’d like about 10 minutes alone with the child’s mother, Casey. What a self-absorbed, immature piece of work she is. And I’m not so sure that the rest of her family is much better. Who waits a month to report a missing two–year-old? I can remember one of my toddlers slipping out of my grasp for a few minutes in a store. I was (rightfully) hysterical. By the time my child turned up safe and sound, hiding under a rack of clothes, playing a one-sided game of hide and seek, I had been through every emotion imaginable. So I have to ask this: Where is the emotion in this case? Investigators must want to wash themselves down every time they come in contact with this family. I know I would. If my child vanished the first thing I’d do is say, “Put me on a polygraph.†I’d turn over my house, my car, anything they needed to rule me out if it would speed the investigation into my child’s disappearance. But the Anthony family has been way too coy about all of this. Casey, Caylee’s mother, has an attorney who said quite solemnly on a TV news interview that the public would understand why she acted the way she did when the time came. Uh – wrong answer there, Bub. A REAL MOTHER WOULD NOT CONCEAL EVIDENCE FROM THE POLICE. A mother who is culpable would. There is a principle called Occam’s razor that I think applies in this case. Also known as the law of parsimony, it boils down to this: when stripping any issue to its bare roots, the simplest explanation is generally the correct one. Taking away all of the mysterious promises to “reveal all†and legal mumbo-jumbo from the Anthony case, what is left is this: The child has disappeared, the mother behaves as if the hunt for the child is simply an inconvenience and the family waited for a month before reporting her missing. While I don’t believe in jumping to conclusions, this is one conclusion that is all but inescapable. What a beautiful little baby. How sad this whole thing is. My missing person for this post is Caylee Anthony, who turned three on August 9th: http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1100742&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US