Woman Acquitted of Murdering Her 2-Year-Old Considering Having Another Child: Report

Samuel Allegri
By Samuel Allegri
September 28, 2019US News
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Woman Acquitted of Murdering Her 2-Year-Old Considering Having Another Child: Report
Casey Anthony listens to testimony during her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla., on June 30, 2011. (Red Huber-Pool/Getty Images)

A source who is allegedly close to Casey Anthony, a woman who was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old child in 2011, said that she is trying to move on and is considering having another child.

“She feels like her biological clock is ticking.” The source told People, “She knows she’s getting older. She’s not the young girl who everyone saw on trial. She’s in her 30s, wondering what to do next, and hoping that she can find some meaning in her life.”

Casey Anthony Released From Jail
Casey Anthony (R) leaves with her attorney Jose Baez from the Booking and Release Center at the Orange County Jail after being acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee Anthony in Orlando, Fla., on July 17, 2011. (Red Huber-Pool/Getty Images)

Anthony hasn’t completely discarded the idea of having another child, but said it would be unlikely that she would. She told the Associated Press in 2017, “If I am blessed enough to have another child—if I’d be dumb enough to bring another kid into this world knowing that there’d be a potential that some [expletive], their little snot-nose kid would then say something mean to my kid—I don’t think I could live with that.”

George Anthony, her father, said in 2018 in an appearance on Dr. Oz that he hoped she could be a good mother someday.

“If she is granted a chance to have another child, I hope that child is strong, grows up to be a worthwhile part of society and, the person that she has the child with, I hope they are going to love her and that child immensely,” George Anthony said, according to the People magazine report. “I hope whatever life she has left that she makes something positive happen in her life.”

Casey Anthony’s then 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, disappeared in Florida in 2008. Her body was recovered months later near where they lived.

The unnamed source told People magazine that Anthony was dating a man last year but that the relationship has slowed down. “She wasn’t ready to settle down,” said the source, adding that things have changed now as she is thinking about the future.

“Marriage, family, the white picket fence,” said the alleged source. “In some ways, that’s very appealing to Casey. She’d want things to be less dysfunctional than the family she had growing up, but she likes the idea of stability.”

Regarding Caylee, Anthony told AP during the interview that she didn’t know what happened.

“If I knew what actually happened, I’d be able to fill in those blanks. I’ve done enough research, I’ve done enough psychology seminars, I’ve been tested, I’ve gone to the psychological evaluations, talked about this to the point where I’ve been in a puddle and not able to talk about it for days afterwards,” Anthony said.

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