Yesterday I happened to be watching CNN as the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial was announced. Like much of America, I was stunned that she was acquitted. From the reports I’ve seen about Anthony’s pathological lying and lack of concern about her missing daughter, I am confident that she exhibits sociopathic traits. A criminal profiler came out and said on national television that she is a psychopath. See:
Profiler says letters show Casey Anthony to be a psychopath
All of us at Lovefraud know what sociopaths/psychopaths are capable of. So I was more stunned by one of the so-called CNN pundits, Dr. Frank Farley, who came on the show later. He said that the prosecution’s theory of Casey Anthony’s motive for murder was ludicrous. No mother, he claimed, would kill her child simply so she could go out and party.
Farley actually posted his views in a blog piece on CNN, in an article called Infanticide in order to party: A nonsense motive. He wrote:
No credible motivational psychology that I know of would support that a single mother who seemed to love her child and who had lots of back-up parenting, in the grandparents and perhaps even from a brother, would go through the careful planning and complex, unpredictable, scary process of killing and disposing of her child in order to get a bit more free time.
This could not be true, unless she was seriously mentally ill, and no available evidence showed that. To go against that deep human instinct to take care of a child, and instead kill that child, demands a very significant reward in the opposite direction, and partying doesn’t rise to that level.
What sane human being could wake up in the morning and say, “Gee, I could have a fun time if I killed my daughter.” There was also no evidence that Caylee was a difficult child whose behavior could lead her mother into a homicidal rage. This whole scheme goes against our deepest instincts rooted in thousands of years of evolution.
Obviously, the guy knows nothing about sociopaths. These disordered individuals have no love motivation. They are capable of killing for the flimsiest of reasons. Take the case of Diane Downs, cited in Dr. Robert Hare’s book, Without Conscience. She shot her three children in 1983 so she could carry on an affair.
ABC News recently aired interviews with Diane Downs, along with a clinical diagnosis: psychopath. Watch the videos here:
1983 Video: Mom who shot kids speaks on ABCNews.go.com.
Professor Farley
Now here’s what is really scary: Frank Farley, Ph.D., is a psychologist and professor at Temple University, and former president of the American Psychological Association. He teaches educational psychology to graduate students. Here’s his biography:
Frank Farley, Ph.D., Temple University College of Education
Farley has come up with this goofy theory of “Type T Personalities.” The “T,” he says, stands for “thrill-seeking,” and certain people are driven to a life of constant stimulation and risk-taking. In fact, he recently wrote an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, claiming that this is why politicians cheat on their wives. I mentioned it in a recent blog post:
More on powerful men behaving badly
Actually, cheating politicians are probably displaying their sociopathic tendencies—grandiosity, overactive sex drive, recklessness, sense of entitlement. But Farley doesn’t get it. He also doesn’t get that it is quite possible for a woman to kill her child for barely any motivation.
And this is what he is teaching to his educational psychology students. No wonder so many people do not know that the sociopathic personality disorder exists.
Louise
Constantine:
Awesome post! I love your way of thinking of how we have to adjust our thinking to the new state of affairs. So true!! We all have to gear our minds to that. Once we KNOW what they are and what they are up to, we must change how we react to them; how we deal with them.
Back_from_the_edge
You weren’t up late, Constantine, you were UP EARLY! 🙂
As you say, it’s all how you perceive things to be.
I completely understand and relate to what you are saying.
Yes, I completely agree with your logic.
I am sorry that you and I had to meet ‘this way’…
Just like I met the x wife…she is a nice lady and there is no vindictiveness on either of our parts towards one another. In fact, we speak every so often, just to extend support and bolster one another up in this life.
Casey Anthony is getting away with murder. It was HER who hid that child in her trunk and it was HER that was responsible for Caylee. I am in a precarious situation rendering this decision because then it gives me thoughts I wish not to consider, regarding my own daughter, whose 2-1/2 year old son was viciously murdered by an old school friend, back in the early 90’s. I should have some very strong emotions and feelings regarding this case but I look at it in a state of ‘awe’.
At once, I can so totally relate and recognize the sociopathic personality and the courts are just completely ignoring it. I am sitting here watching the sentencing and listening to their arguments prior to sentencing and watching Ms. Anthony, and I recognize the personality I am looking at, without hearing a single word from her.
Casey was Caylee’s mother. She had the ultimate responsibility for the care and welfare of Caylee. Caylee was found dead and there has been no COD determined and conviction of murder cannot take place unless there IS a COD ruling out her involvement or substantiating her intent. Since they were unable to determine how Caylee’s death occurred, per se, the jury chose to follow the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law. Ms. Anthony was facing the death penalty should she have been found guilty.
You and I both know, and anyone with a ‘good moral compass’ knows, just by looking at her, that she is a sociopathic personality. She is going to have a truly difficult life to live now, once she is released but she is pretty much going to be set free. They are going to give her the time she has already served and they are going to let her go. She has gotten away with murder.
I am sitting on pins and needles, wondering, hoping, wishing and praying, that the Court will throw some counseling in his sentencing or we are all doomed. She will be coming back to our society and continuing to mate and what will happen to her next offspring? Hmmmm?
Casey Anthony is already a rich girl, over all this, I heard this morning, media is offering no less than a million dollars for the first interview with her, after her release. This IS a travesty of justice but Ms. Anthony is going to have to LIVE with herself and the stigma the world, I JUST KNOW, is going to give her over this. The Court needs to direct her into treatment for her issues and I hope they do but am not holding my breath.
Thanks Constantine for sharing; I agree with you completely.
This is a huge case for America right now and the Judge has to be very careful as he is walking a very thin line on her sentencing. After my Grandson was murdered, my Daughter was scrutinized for quite a while as to her ‘parenting abilities’ but was never brought under any charges as the perp in our case unquestionably acted alone.
They are reserving sentencing for another 30 days and that means they will probably continue to hold her, pending sentencing investigation. HOPEFULLY anyways.
I’ll catch ya over on the other blog, Constantine…
I read your answer to me and I really would like to respond.
XXOO
DUPED
Twice Betrayed
Constantine and sky: excellent posts!!!!! I employ and LISTEN to what animals move on: instinct. When I read/hear/experience something…if I get the that little feeling that comes up my back and my neck/stomach-and that little voice that says…”uh oh”, I move on quickly. DANGER! [man is the only animal that overrides this] I used to override and give the benefit of the doubt, nope, no longer. If it sounds like a P, walks like a P, spins like a P, powers like a P, cheats, lies, abuses, uses etc like a P, it’s a P. NO slack….period.
Ox Drover
Duped,
Cause of death is NOT necessary in ALL cases of murder, there have been successful prosecutions of murder without a body even being found at all so there was no way a COD could have been determined in those cases.
No cause of death was determined in Laci Peterson as her head was not found and her internal organs were gone….
The jury did not need COD to find that Caley had been murdered vs. an accident. The duct tape and the hidden body was enough evidence for most people I think to have a REASONABLE thought that she was murdered not died by accident. Who on earth would take a baby that died by accident and try to make it look like a murder? LOL
Twice Betrayed
Ox: yep. And now one of the jurors has come forward saying they didn’t believe she was innocent. Well, they acquitted her and that’s what an acquittal says.
Ox Drover
TB, well it doesn’t matter now if all 12 think she is “not innocent” or not, the NOT GUILTY verdict sets her free…..in a day or two she will most likely be on the street able to sell her story for zillions of $$$$$, and there will be a book by her lawyer, and a book by her parents, and a book by the person who cuts her hair, and a book by her x boy friend and before long she will be like what’s-er’face, be on celebrity rehab because she was FORCED to do porno films because she couldn’t get a job. Boooooo hoooooo booooo hooooo feel sorry for her.
Twice Betrayed
Ox: yeah, like Amy Fisher. I did read where the head porn man of Vivid films, contacted her attorney the AM after the verdict, trying to solicit Casey for a major porn film. Then later recalled the offer as Americans were showing extreme dislike for Casey-including the porn audience!
Louise
Oh, I watched when Casey was sentenced this morning. The reporters were commenting on how during her court sessions, her hair was pulled back and she was acting so demure. This morning, she shows up with her hair down and smiling like crazy! I swear I would beat her to a pulp if she was in front of me!!! I can’t stand her antics and I have seen them before. She acts exactly like the OW who was in triangulation with me. Always trying to manipulate someone, always lying and always using her looks and feminine ways to lure men into her web. Just makes me livid!!
Ox Drover
I haven’t had the TV on but have seen articles about it in several of the news papers I read on line. PUKE. Yea, she and Amy Fisher are sides of a coin….in my opinion, and Susan Smith, and all the others just like them, famous and not so famous.
Twice Betrayed
I have a prediction: I predict somewhere down the road she turns on this attorney….
I’ll tell you why I think that: he said this AM that he “saved her life”. Now we all know about how long that’s gonna ‘set well’ with a P.