Casey Anthony: Shaken charity organizer getting threats
Caylee Anthony
Could more little children suffer because of the Caylee Anthony story?
That’s a horrifying thought, but consider the latest TV reports in the Casey Anthony saga.
Cindy Anthony’s offer to donate granddaughter Caylee’s shoes to the Children of Love Foundation has sparked a furor against the charity, WFTV-Ch. 9 explained tonight.
The charity’s founder, Doris Patalano, ”was in tears over this today,” WFTV’s Kathi Belich reported. “She wouldn’t talk to us on camera.”
Callers are threatening to protest the charity’s shoe drive this weekend, Belich reported. But the charity has a partner in St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Oviedo and has a long record of helping children in Central and South America.
Patalano ”said Cindy offered to help with the shoe drive Saturday but never mentioned donating Caylee’s shoes,” Belich added.
Cindy announced her decision to donate the shoes in an e-mail to WKMG-Ch. 6.
Any bad publicity for a charity can be devastating news in hard times, and Belich illustrated that point by talking to the House of Hope, which can’t make its next payroll.
Cindy Anthony’s new lawyers told Belich they were preparing a news release about the issue.
Cindy’s daughter, Casey Anthony, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Caylee.
In other Anthony news, former Casey Anthony boyfriend Tony Lazzaro has asked Judge Belvin Perry to quash the defense team’s efforts to get more of his phone records, WESH-Ch. 2 reported.