Inmates: Fla. mother charged with killing toddler used drugs to make daughter sleep

Inmates: Anthony would drug daughter for sleep

ORLANDO, Fla. — A jail inmate claims a Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter would use drugs sometimes to put the toddler to sleep so that she could go out with friends, according to documents released Tuesday. A second inmate says the woman would use antihistamines on the toddler.

Maya Derkovic told detectives she was friendly with Casey Anthony in the Orange County Jail and that the 24-year-old mother confided in her about drugging her daughter so she could go out, according to a partial transcript the inmate’s interview with investigators. The transcript, along with other documents, was released by the State Attorney’s Office in Orlando.

A spokeswoman for Anthony’s legal team didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail and phone call.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and has said a baby sitter kidnapped her daughter, Caylee. The toddler’s remains were found in December 2008, six months after she was reported missing.

Anthony told another inmate at the jail that Caylee had trouble sleeping and that Anthony would use medicine to put her to sleep, according to the documents. Robyn Adams said in a full transcript of her police interview that Anthony used antihistamines on her daughter. However, a police summary of Adams’ exchange with investigators says that Anthony used chloroform.

Adams, also told detective that on the day Caylee’s body was discovered Anthony shared with her details of how the body was found that hadn’t been released yet to the public.

But letters Anthony wrote to Adams in jail show a different side to Anthony.

In the letters, Anthony described herself as an “emotional wreck,” and said she had unconditional love for her daughter. Anthony said in the letter that she would give anything to go back to the day Caylee disappeared and not let her out of her sight.