By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO Thu May 26, 2011 8:33pm EDT
ORLANDO (Reuters) - The former boyfriend with arrested murderer Casey Anthony refused upon Thursday that will your lover ever previously instructed your pet her father molested her.
Tony Lazzaro, whom had been internet dating Casey when your girlfriend 2-year-old daughter died around June 2008, said your girlfriend account of her romance using George Anthony "definitely has not been sperm abuse."
"Hitting is all I can easily remember," Lazzaro said. "To my knowledge, this seemed like self-discipline in order to me."
The ex-boyfriend's testimony seemed to be a blow that will the defense trial run technique inside Casey Anthony's first-degree murder case.
The 25-year-old Florida woman people the particular passing away fees when charged connected with rates of which your lady put to sleep the woman child on June 16, 2008, by means of wrapping that toddler's experience and also brain three times with duct tape plus throwing your ex body inside forest near the Anthony home.
Earlier this week, safety attorney Jose Baez explained to jurors the actual Casey appeared to be sexually molested by your girlfriend father like a child.
Baez claimed that will abuse spelled out your girlfriend "bizarre" behavior, which include carefree partying and purchasing sprees, immediately after little princess Caylee Anthony's death.
Lazzaro had been identified as to testify upon Thursday outside the company with the jury regarding a "secret" Baez previously told jurors Casey discussed with Lazzaro but the judge experienced turned down to make it possible for that jury hear.
Lazzaro stated Casey did tell him with regards to an incident inside previous when a different young Anthony comparable had tried using unsuccessfully to help "feel her up" or perhaps touching her chest, but could not implicate the woman's father.
During your testimony, George Anthony, who under oath has denied just about any abuse, along with his wife Cindy sat inside back line from the Orlando courtroom. As judge adjourned, Casey as well as Cindy viewed around the room in addition to held each other peoples gaze.
Afterward, Baez kept jogging as well as did not react into a concern by Reuters with regards to whether or not Lazzaro's testimony possessed damaged the defense's case.
'SUCH A GOOD LIAR'
Caylee Anthony seemed to be not reported missing until finally July 15, 2008, thirty days following your lady died. After finding Casey's auto in an impound lot, Cindy Anthony called 911 as well as famously advised the particular dispatcher that trunk smelled as being a lifeless body.
The protection contends George Anthony discovered Caylee drowned from the family's back garden beach with June sixteen however no one announced your accident.
More criminal prosecution witnesses with Thursday referred to Casey while emotionally the same after Caylee's death. Friends as well as Lazzaro possess described the way Casey told these individuals Caylee has been on the a number of tours together with a new nanny or even some sort of child sitter.
Prosecutors said Casey humiliated to the woman mother that the lady and also Caylee were around Tampa plus Jacksonville.
An acquaintance, Melissa England, said Casey went on a mobile call for a shopping trip, then tossed your girlfriend mobile phone around the dashboard and said, "Oh my own God, I feel a real good liar."
Sitting in the safety table, Casey shook your girlfriend head plus mouthed the phrase "no."
Both George Anthony and also Lazzaro testified they smelled gas fumes but very little odour associated with decay while Casey opened the woman car trunk in their presence seven days right after Caylee's death.
But some sort of prosecution specialist can be likely for you to testify evaluation of air flow in the trunk ended up being consistent using human decomposition.
Such evidence offers certainly not before happen to be admitted inside some sort of trial, as well as defense attorney fought unsuccessfully to stay this out on grounds it can be unproven science.
Legal gurus include claimed the problem is often a sure-fire issue to get attractiveness have to Casey be discovered guilty.
Baez grilled George Anthony about duct tape on a gas can he kept from a shed, among the same cups that will acquired been with Casey's trunk.
The tape can be important: It will be the very same special brand determined wrapped all over Caylee's mind when the woman is still were being found December 11, 2008, and connects the particular fantastic on the Anthony home.
George explained this individual considered he taped a target inside might to stay smells out of getting after Casey misplaced a cap. He denied Baez's advice this individual placed tape within the can learning it could come to be an important bit of evidence.
Another an old sweetheart regarding Casey's diagnosed your photo that will he / she positioned with his MySpace web page around March 2008.
The photo, captioned "Win her around . with Chloroform," shows a man nuzzling a woman and also holding some sort of pads in close proximity to your ex face. Ricardo Morales explained he concept it absolutely was amusing with the time.
His advertisment took place at about the identical time prosecutors point out Casey Anthony Googled "chloroform" on the woman residence computer. Prosecution experts usually are required to testify they determined proof of plenty of chloroform inside Casey's automobile trunk.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Jerry Norton )
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