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Anthony says she is joining the platform after entering the ‘legal field’ in 2011, when her daughter’s murder trial took place.
FLORIDA, USA — Fourteen years after the circus-like Orlando trial where she was acquitted for her daughter’s murder, Casey Anthony has taken to TikTok, claiming to be a “legal advocate” and “proponent for the LGBTQ community, for our legal community, (and) women’s rights.”
In her first video, she says she wants to “use the platform that was thrust upon (her) and now look at as a blessing, as opposed to the curse that it has been since 2008.”
The “platform” Anthony refers to is her entrance into the public eye when she was accused of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child in Caylee Anthony’s murder.
She also claims she will “advocate” for Caylee on her TikTok account, though she says it is “not about” her daughter or family.
While she was ultimately not convicted of murder, Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to the police related to the crime. Two charges were later dropped. She served three years in prison.
The Associated Press reported in 2017 that former Circuit Judge Belvin Perry Jr., who presided over the trial, openly theorized years later that Anthony may have killed Caylee accidentally when she was using chloroform to calm her.
Anthony told the AP at that time she thought of her life as akin to Alice in Wonderland. “The queen is proclaiming: ‘No, no, sentence first, verdict afterward,’” she said. “I sense and feel to this day that is a direct parallel to what I lived. My sentence was doled out long before there was a verdict. Sentence first, verdict afterward. People found me guilty long before I had my day in court.”
Now, saying she has been “in the legal field since 2011” — the year she went to trial — Anthony is encouraging people to contact her in her “professional capacity” as a legal advocate. She says she will set up an email address so people can contact her directly but does not specify in the three-and-a-half-minute video what exactly she will be doing. She also advertises a newsletter using Substack.
She says that she will continue to post on TikTok and produce her newsletter going forward.
