And that's the way it's supposed to be.
You open the floodgates to innuendo and gossip to being legally permissible in a court of law, and next thing you know we have shit like this:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1945430,00.html
Whether you personally THINK she is guilty or not is beside the point.
The fact is that there was not enough actual evidence to convict her.
And thanks to the US Constitution, we don't have a legal system that convicts people off of gossip.
Personally I think the kid died in some fucked up accident due to horrible parenting and that her and her fam panicked and tried to cover it up.
And that she should have been convicted of some kind of manslaughter or aggravated child abuse.
But what I THINK is beside the point.
I wasn't on that jury.
And neither were you.
And the only trial any of us got to see was the one put on by the media.