make a phone call? why didn t i call 911? i have to live with that. knowing that i failed to protect my child. reporter: for 31 days, anthony kept quiet. during the 31 days, i genuinely believed that caylee was still alive. my father kept telling me that she was okay. reporter: when her mother finally called 911 to report caylee missing, anthony said the girl s nanny had taken her. turns out that nanny never existed, which anthony admits in the documentary. in the docuseries, anthony says that she was lying to protect her father, as she d been taught to do, following what she claimed were years of sexual abuse by him, beginning at age 8. my father was holding me down and raping me. that happens again and again and again. it was like i was brainwashed. and it wasn t until much later that i started to really realize why. reporter: at her trial, her father, george anthony denied
i can see him standing there with her in his arms. and hand her to me. and telling me that it s my fault. reporter: anthony says that her father took caylee after that, and she doesn t know what happened next. five months after caylee was reported missing, her skeletal remains were found in a wooded area about a half mile from the family s home. she had duct tape over her mouth and was inside a laundry bag and garbage bags. anthony was charged with first-degree murder, lying to investigators, and other charges. at her trial in 2011, anthony s defense team claimed the little girl drowned in the family s pool and the accidental drowning spiraled out of control, with anthony and her dad covering up caylee s death. she was cold. reporter: but in the new docuseries, anthony puts the blame squarely on her father, suggesting caylee died on his watch. i know people are going to question, well, why didn t i
she was living with her former investigator. but we don t see her very much around town. she s been very quiet. this is the first time in this docuseries that s airing on peacock, it s the first time that she has spoken publicly about her parents, about the search for her daughter, about where she was in those days, why she now admits that she lied so much to investigators. here s a look at what she had to say. the only person in this world that matters to me still is my daughter. but i m still defending the fact that i didn t hurt her. reporter: 14 years after her daughter disappeared, casey anthony says that she still misses her. in the new docuseries on peacock titled casey anthony: where the truth lies, anthony shares for the first time on camera her own theory about what happened to her daughter, caylee. she says she took a nap with her daughter on that dlailast day a woke up to her father holding caylee in his arms. she s soaking wet.
abusing his daughter or having anything to do with caylee s death. peacock says he turned down an offer to appear on their program. cnn has reached out to him for comment. after more than 100 witnesses at her trial, casey anthony was found not guilty of murder, but she was convicted of providing false information to police. she was freed shortly afterward due to the time she d spent in jail awaiting trial. she s still everything to me. reporter: anthony says she ll always wonder what really happened to caylee. i don t know if it would be better to know or just keep not knowing. because i don t know what the truth is. all i know is that she s dead. that something happened. randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida. our thanks to randi for her reporting on all of that. coming up, chaos at a christmas event.
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