Fighting for Caylee's Law

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - People who disagree with the verdict say there was no justice for Caylee Anthony. So now, thousands of social media users are trying to create some justice of their own.

Amid all the public outrage, one question continues to baffle: why did Casey Anthony wait more than a month before telling anyone her daughter was missing?

“That's just crazy,” Springfield resident Damaris Blue said. “She should have been like the first hour upset, calling someone… forget thirty-one days!”

Now an online campaign to create "Caylee's Law" has gone viral. An Oklahoma woman started a petition on the social activism website Change.org . The petition calls on Congress to draft a bill to make it a felony for parents not to report a missing child in a timely manner.

By Wednesday night over 200,000 people had signed it, making it the fastest-growing campaign the website has ever seen.

Currently there is no Massachusetts law requiring parents to file a report. A quick search on the website for the National Center for the Missing and Exploited shows forty-two records of missing kids from Massachuestts. (One child is listed twice.)

Florida State Representative Bill Hager announced on Wednesday he's already drafted a proposed Caylee's Law in his state. That version would make it a felony in cases in which the parent knew or should have known the child was in danger

Many people told 22News if the same bill was introduced here, they'd support it.

”If they don't report it within that same day something should be done about it,” said Lindsey Pelletier of Palmer.

22News spoke with the Massachusetts State Police spokesperson who said not only would the bill make sense, it would help law enforcement because "with each passing hour the chances of finding a missing child decline sharply." When a person goes missing, the first forty-eight hours are considered the most critical.