Posted on 07/11/2013 4:19:08 PM PDT by IbJensen
I find it more disturbing that someone felt the need to “sell” this as news.
So what? This is a non story.
ditto!
Sick
Terrible. They are profiting from the death of their grandchild. Better to donate where the association with the murder will be unknown. I would not want my child to have those things.
I’m absolutely stunned.
Good point.
I’m amazed that George and Cindy Anthony are still together. After making the phone call that triggered the initial police investigation, Cindy suspended any attempt at rational thought and became a cheerleader for her daughter’s defense, even if it meant smearing her husband—and son—in the process.
As a parent, I can’t imagine having to go through what the Anthonys experienced. But it’s pretty clear that Casey was responsible for her daughter’s death, eliminating the main obstacle to her non-stop party lifestyle. From my days as a reporter, I’ve known families who come to terms with the crimes committed by their children and move forward as best they can. But Cindy’s determination to get her daughter off—no matter what it took—is repugnant and disgusting. As for George, I don’t know if he’s a sap, or just as delusional as his wife. But allowing your name to dragged thru the mud to support the defense team’s lies—and allow a killer to walk free—is simply incomprehensible.
But then again, so is selling your late granddaughter’s toys at a yard sale. If they were determined to get rid of those haunting items, why no donate them, quietly and privately, to a local children’s hospital or orphanage? Their little yard sale is just one more sad and bizarre turn in a tragedy where the real victim has been all-but-forgotten.
This is evil.
"Stuff" when it comes attached to its history brings those memories. Would anyone want their child playing with the toys of someone whose life ended so horribly?
If they wanted someone else to enjoy the toys, they should've been donated annonymously, maybe to a group home. Profiting from the loss of a child is wrong.
I agree with the prosecutor: “Someone in that house killed her.”
I knew a family who’s 12 year old daughter was hit on a bicycle. Her parents kept the room just like it was except they put the crumpled bicycle in the room and hung pictures of the dead body on the walls.
Close to where I live, a 20 year old guy was killed by a drunk driver. This was almost four years ago. The family has put a “shrine” up and are constantly updating it.
I guess some people just can move on with their lives.
It is as far as the murdered child is concerned.
The extremes seem to be those people with only one or two children. Not that there’s less pain if you have more children. Just that it seems there’s so much going on with the others it’s somewhat easier to move on with life.
“It’s stuff, not a person. How is this different than any estate sale?”
Yea you are correct. Still some here are correct in that people will put this stuff on ebay just cause of who the child’s mom was. That is where it gets sick.
” Would anyone want their child playing with the toys of someone whose life ended so horribly?”
Logically, one cannot support so much as donating the toys, given this rationale.
Is that the RIGHT way to be a grieving parent? Please do tell, I'd like to know if I'm doing it wrong.
I apologize. My post was unnecessarily hostile.
That’s on the people that Put the stuff on eBay. It’s not on the people who have the property. Throwing the stuff out or donating it could’ve resulted in the same thing.
S’ok. Everybody grieves differently. IMHO people who have 3 or 4 kids or more simply have too much to do to essentially fossilize an entire region of their hearts and homes. The extreme case I gave was mom to an only child. And she worshipped him. He was engaged to be married and only IIRC 2 or 3 months away from the wedding. His intended moved on and his mother essentially adopted her. The girl got married eventually to someone else but the first almost MIL treats her kids like they were her own grandkids.
And not everyone grieves publicly.
This case ripped me apart because this kid was only 10 days younger than my oldest. And I simply can. not. imagine. deliberately harming her. Or giving her ‘zanny the nanny’ (ie, xanax) so I could go party with whoever.
IMHO this whole family is just creepy.
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