Who is Belvin Perry Jr? Judge slams Casey Anthony's claims about her dad staging her daughter's drowning
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ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Casey Anthony's latest allegations that her father drowned her daughter to cover up accidentally suffocating her with a pillow during an alleged sexual assault are untrue, claims the judge who presided over her murder trial. Anthony made the allegation during her first in-depth interview in a three-part documentary titled 'Where the Truth Lies' on Peacock, in which she asserts that George Anthony, Casey's father, sexually molested both her and her daughter Caylee.
"Casey Anthony's believability is pretty much zero," Judge Belvin Perry Jr, who didn't believe Casey's claim back in 2011 and doesn't believe her recent assertions, told The Sun. George Anthony has vigorously refuted the allegations, and neither he nor anyone else has ever been charged in relation to them or connected to Caylee's 2008 death.
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In 2011, following a trial that received widespread media attention and during which Anthony was nicknamed the most despised woman in America, she was notoriously found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter Caylee. Despite cadaver dogs finding signs of human remains inside Caylee's car, Anthony has consistently maintained that she was not killed. Caylee's skeletal remains were found in Orlando, Florida, a short distance from the family home. However, in the current season, which premiered on November 29, she now alleges that when she awoke from her slumber, Caylee, who had been beside her, was no longer there. She alleges that her father, George, sexually molested her when she was a youngster and suggests that he did the same to Caylee. Only her father, she claims, is aware of Caylee's exact cause of death.
It took Anthony 31 days to notify the police that Caylee was missing in 2008. Cindy, Anthony's mother, first informed the police about Caylee's abduction on July 15, 2008. For a month, Casey and Caylee had not been seen by the couple. The smell, according to George, "took his breath away," when they later discovered Casey's car in a tow yard.
Cindy called 911 and said, "Caylee's missing," to the operator. "It smells like there’s been a dead body in the damn car." Anthony then informed the authorities that Zenaida Gonzales Fernandez, the babysitter she had left her child with, was also gone.
Anthony now asserts in her Peacock documentary that she last saw her daughter on June 16 when she woke up from a nap and was in her father's arms. Anthony said, "During the 31 days, I genuinely believed that Caylee was still alive. My father kept telling me she was ok. I had to keep following his instructions. He told me what to do. I tried to act as normal as I could." She claimed that after moving in with her boyfriend, she discovered her daughter was gone when she returned in July. "I lied. But nobody asked me why," she states in the trailer of the docu.
Daily Mail reported, Anthony then continues by making the same tired and baseless accusations that her father molested her when she was a little child. "He'd put a pillow over my face and smother me to knock me out. That happened several times. I'm sure there were times where I was incapacitated as a child where my body was limp and lifeless." She now claims that she thinks Caylee was also abused by her father after her. In a previous documentary, George criticized Anthony for lying and said that her allegations that Caylee drowned were untrue. "It's still something I can't piece together but I wasn't the only one home. I'm not outright accusing him of murder but it wasn't an accident in the pool," Casey stated, rejecting the defense argument made by her attorneys during the trial. She states, "When I was eight-years-old my father started to come into my room at night. I was physically hurt...scared because I can't tell mommy what happened, she'll get mad at me - that's what I was told. With my father, the abuse one day just stopped, right before my 12th birthday. She added, "Then my brother started coming in shortly after I turned 12 and it stopped around the time I was 15. It wasn't the same thing that happened with my father, my brother never raped me, but it was close enough where there was a pattern." Her claims have never been validated. But despite her new allegations, Judge Perry was unmoved. "Nothing surprises me about her anymore," Judge Perry told the US Sun.
Who is Belvin Perry Jr?
Belvin Perry Jr came to the public eye after he presided over the murder trial of Casey Anthony in 2011. With the trial being witnessed by the entire country, the Florida judge gained popularity. People were even selling "Judge Perry is my homeboy" T-shirts outside the courthouse. Judge Perry's mother was a public school teacher, so he learned the value of civic duty at a young age. His father saw segregation in Florida end as a child and was one of the first two police officers hired by the Orlando Police Department. In the 2017 docu 'Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery on Investigation Discovery,' he was one of the people who were interviewed. He re-entered the public eye when Oxygen aired their three-part series, 'The Case of: Caylee Anthony', to revisit the terrible case of infant Caylee Anthony's disappearance, as per In Touch Weekly.