Casey Anthony Released Under Heavy Guard
After three years of jail, 25-year-old escorted past hecklers by deputies with semi-automatic rifles.
| Posted Sunday, July 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM ET
It wasn’t exactly the re-entry to the free world one might hope for.
As a recently acquitted Casey Anthony left a Orlando, Fla., jail with her attorney just after midnight Sunday, she faced an angry crowd of nearly 100 people, some of them shouting “baby killer” at the 25-year-old, according to the Associated Press.
Anthony—who had been accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee—was accompanied by two deputies carrying semi-automatic rifles, and whisked away in a SUV, toward an unknown destination.
"It is my hope,” attorney Jose Baez told AP reporters, “that Casey Anthony can receive the counseling and treatment she needs to move forward with the rest of her life."
Moving forward with the rest of her life may be a tall order for Casey Anthony, and some others. In recent days, a Philadelphia man named Casey Anthony received a barrage of threats, and a woman in Oklahoma claims another woman attacked her because she bears similar looks to Anthony.
Not all in the crowd at Anthony’s release were hecklers; several who waited to watch Anthony leave held signs with messages of support, one even asking for her hand in marriage. But the vast majority seemed to direct their ire at the new celebrity.
"She is safer in jail than she is out here," Mike Quiroz, who drove from Miami to spend his 22nd birthday outside the jail, told the AP. "She better watch her butt. She is known all over the world."
Meanwhile, even though she has been found innocent, states around the country are beefing up laws that punish parents who wait to tell authorities that their children have died. Watch below:
