Casey Anthony.Photo:El Nuevo Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty
El Nuevo Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty
Casey Anthony, the mother who was famouslyacquitted of the murderof her 2-year-old daughter, has joined TikTok.
Anthony became a fixture in the news following the 2008 death of her daughter,Caylee, who had been missing for months.
The Florida mother was eventually charged with murder after Caylee was found dead in a wooded area near the home of Anthony’s parents.
In 2011, Anthony was controversially found not guilty of murder, but she was convicted of lying to law enforcement.
Now, in a video posted March 1, Anthony has announced that she is on TikTok and is starting a Substack.
“I am a legal advocate, I am a researcher, I’ve been in the legal field since 2011 and in this capacity, I feel that it’s necessary, if I’m going to continue to operate appropriately as a legal advocate, that I start to advocate for myself and also advocate for my daughter,” Anthony said in the video, which is longer than three minutes. (Caylee was Anthony’s only child.)
During Anthony’s trial, the defense argued that Caylee had drowned in the backyard swimming pool of Casey’s parents, George and Cindy Anthony.
Prosecutors had claimed that Anthony used chloroform to kill her daughter and pointed to different lies she had told during the investigation.
In her TikTok, Anthony said that recently, people close to her had been targeted.
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“As a proponent for the LGBTQ community, for legal community, women’s rights, I feel that it’s important that I use this platform that was thrust upon me and now look at as a blessing, as opposed to the curse that it has been since 2008,” she said.
Anthony also announced that she has started a Substack and that she will be setting up an email for people to communicate with her directly about legal matters.
In her first post on the blogging platform, Anthony wrote that “the presumption of innocence is a sacred right.”
source: people.com
