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Originally Posted by CaliforniaGirl
Also, placing duct tape over the child's mouth could have been just a really stupid thing to do (resulting in the child perhaps aspirating her own vomit, an accidental death), but duct tape over both mouth and nose would be premeditated murder.
What I don't understand is how any rational person could believe Baez's convoluted yarn. Why would anyone put duct tape over the nose and mouth of a dead (drowned) child?
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I wondered too how this fits into the defense's story. I didn't hear the opening statements, because we're traveling, but from the accounts I heard about them I gather that the story is that Casey accidently let Caylee drown, her father either was home at the time or came home and discovered it; warned Casey that she would be imprisoned for neglect (and also said that 'your mother will never forgive you'); and that after that somehow in disposing of the body her father put the duct tape in place to make it look as though Caylee had been murdered by someone in order to disguise the fact that she had actually drowned - apparently to keep from implicating the family as being responsible. (??!!)
This is just my take on this from having heard bits and pieces; can anyone who actually saw the opening statements fill in any better what Baez said to explain the duct tape?
I agree that the whole thing sounds pretty preposterous. But it is not impossible that it happened. The prosecution's case has so many strong points that only some defense scenario totally off in a different direction has a chance of flying.