Parents Divided on Seeing Casey Anthony Once More

George Anthony told “Dr. Phil” host Phil McGraw in an interview that aired on Monday that once being accused by his daughter’s lawyers throughout her murder trial of molesting her, he does not assume a relationship is within the offing. He conjointly said that he feels he was “played” by his daughter’s lawyers over the past 3 years of the case.

“I do love my daughter, i do not like what she’s done to the current family,” George Anthony said.

Cindy Anthony, however, said she hopes the connection between mother and daughter will be mended which she feels her daughter ought to are acquitted.

She conjointly told McGraw that her daughter’s lead defense attorney, Jose Baez, invited her to his workplace for a non-public meeting shortly before the trial began as a result of “he said that Casey needed me to understand how Caylee died.”

The woman was the main focus of a wide-ranging search once her disappearance in June 2008. Casey Anthony told police that a fictitious babysitter had kidnapped the kid. The 25-year-old told constant story to her family till the child’s skeletal remains were found within the woods in December 2008 not off from the Anthony family home.

During the trial over the summer, her attorneys told jurors the kid accidentally drowned within the family pool.

“When he (Baez) told me she had drowned within the pool which Casey panicked … i used to be hysterically crying and could not believe our daughter had place us through this and ruined her life,” Cindy Anthony said.

George Anthony, who wasn’t invited to that meeting, said he thinks it absolutely was all an endeavor to control Cindy emotionally and set him up the scapegoat for Casey’s erratic behavior throughout her disappearance.

“I did not believe something,” he said. “I did not believe something that the defense told me. I felt I had been played.”

The Anthonys spoke with McGraw for a lengthy, taped interview that aired in 3 elements over the past 2 weeks.

Cindy Anthony said she never believed the molestation allegations against her husband, however needed her daughter to be acquitted.

“I assume (the jury) primarily based (the verdict) on the dearth of proof the state presented,” Cindy Anthony said. “… If I had been on that jury, i might have done constant factor.”

A message left by The Associated Press with Baez wasn’t immediately came back.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murder in July, however convicted of 4 charges of lying to police. She is somewhere in Florida serving a year of probation on a separate check fraud conviction. Authorities are keeping her whereabouts confidential for her safety.

Anthony’s acquittal caused a national uproar, with individuals protesting their displeasure with the decision each publicly and thru social media. one among the defense’s arguments was that a number of Casey’s erratic behavior may well be explained as a result of she was molested by her father, that George Anthony once more denied.

“They had to place on a defense and that they did that,” he said.

Cindy Anthony said the last contact she had with Casey was via Baez. He said she needed to pass along “That she loves us which when the time is correct she’ll refer to all people.”

She said she thinks her daughter probably has remorse regarding the allegations she created against her father.

“I assume she regrets it, however i do not assume Jose regrets it,” Cindy Anthony said. “…But it’s one thing Casey can have to be compelled to live with for the remainder of her life.”