Casey Anthony Update: Still ‘Most Hated Woman,’ Gets Death Threats, and Has No Freedom

Casey Anthony Update: Still ‘Most Hated Woman,’ Gets Death Threats, and Has No Freedom
Casey Anthony (2L) leaves with her attorney Jose Baez (L) from the Booking and Release Center at the Orange County Jail after she was acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee Anthony on July 17, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. It was unknown where Casey Anthony was going after the release. (Photo by Red Huber-Pool/Getty Images)
Jack Phillips
11/1/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was acquitted of murdering her daughter a few years ago, apparently still lives with death threats and “has no friends,” according to a report.

Her lawyer recently did an interview with Nine MSN, saying Anthony, 28, receives death threats and hate mail.

“She’s still branded the most hated women in the world . . . maybe she still is,” Cheney Mason, her lawyer, told the site. “She has no freedom. She can’t go to McDonald’s for a burger. She can’t go to the grocery store or a restaurant or do any of those routine things that we do.”

Mason recently released a book about Anthony’s case, called Justice in America.

Anthony was charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of Caylee Anthony, who was found dead in the woods. An autopsy was not able to determine how she died.

Prosecutors alleged she used chloroform to kill the baby.

A few months ago, CNN did a report on what Anthony’s life is like three years later.

“She can’t go to a beauty parlor, she can’t go shopping to a department store, she can’t go to a restaurant, she can’t even go to McDonald’s,” Mason told CNN at the time.

She said Anthony has little contact with her parents and other family members. “She has to live constantly on guard. She can’t go out in public,” Mason said, adding she works as a “housekeeper, clerk, secretary and stuff like that.”

“I think Casey has a lot of world left to have to deal with. She hasn’t been freed from her incarceration yet ‘cause she can’t go out. She can’t go to a beauty parlor, she can’t go shopping to a department store, she can’t go to a restaurant, she can’t even go to McDonald’s. She can’t do anything,” he said.

“She has a few benefactors that are enamored with her and send her things,” a source close to her told People magazine. “They pay for everything.”

Added a source: “She is surrounded by enablers. No one makes her pull her own weight. No one makes her accountable. That’s what got her into this mess in the first place. I, for one, don’t feel the least bit sorry for her.”

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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