This capacity for deep love and heroics is why it's so transfixing when mothers are accused of perpetrating harm against their children.
The bond between a mother and child is beyond powerful, capable of impossible-seeming feats of strength in defense of the young. This capacity for deep love and heroics is why it's so transfixing when mothers are accused of perpetrating harm against their children. Filicide is the subject of the three-episode, one-season documentary The Case of: Caylee Anthony, which examines the infamous 2008 death of 3-year-old Caylee and the 2011 trial of the defendant, then 22-year-old former mother Casey Anthony.