The Florida woman that was accused of killing her 2 year old daughter has just been acquitted by a jury of her peers. Imprisoned on suspicious of murder since 2008, Casey Anthony had maintained that she knew nothing about the death of her daughter. Prosecutors alleged that Anthony lived her life normally and failed to report her daughter, Caylee, missing because she was already deceased. In her defense, Anthony’s attorneys accused her father George of being the real perpetrator.
Jurors deliberated for less than a day when Anthony was found not guilty of murder in the first degree, child abuse and aggravated manslaughter. She was subsequently found guilty of providing false information to a law enforcement officer during the course of an investigation. Although Casey Anthony gave conflicting accounts to Florida police officers multiple times before the remains of her daughter were found in December of 2008, she maintained her innocence until the very end. Anthony first said that she left her daughter in the care of a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, but the woman told police that she had never seen Anthony or her daughter before.
Anthony will be sentenced on four counts of providing false information to a law officer during the course of an investigation, which could land her a total of four years in prison. Because she has already been imprisoned for three years, Anthony could be released immediately. The exonerated woman’s attorneys are pleased with the outcome of the trial and hope that Caylee Anthony’s killer will eventually be found.
