Casey's Mother's Anguish - Diane Dimond

Casey's Mother's Anguish
by Diane Dimond

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It was the ultimate tearjerker: a mother pointing a finger at her daughter, who faces death for killing her granddaughter. Diane Dimond on yesterday’s drama at the Casey Anthony trial.

At the end of the highly acclaimed HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce, actress Kate Winslet runs away from her ungrateful, manipulating adult daughter one afternoon and finds herself alone at the bar of her restaurant. Her ex-husband appears at her side—he, the father of the horrid daughter—and tells Mildred it's OK to hate your own child. He grabs a bottle and says, “Let’s get stinko!” Mildred smiles knowingly as the end credits roll.

Veda Pierce’s betrayal (she sleeps with Mildred’s new husband among several other unforgiveable transgressions) came to mind Tuesday while watching the testimony of Casey Anthony’s parents during her capital murder trial in Orlando, Florida. The pain in their eyes and the quaver in their voices as they testified about how the betrayal of their own daughter may have led to the death of their 2-year-old granddaughter, Caylee, was heartbreaking. It made one want to give George and Cindy Anthony permission to “get stinko!” to help ease their obvious suffering.

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