A panel of Wyoming lawmakers has rejected a draft bill that would have made it a crime for parents or guardians not to report a missing child. No members of the Legislature's Joint Judiciary Committee moved to approve the bill Thursday at a hearing in Laramie. The push to consider a bill was inspired by the Casey Anthony trial in Florida. A jury this summer found Anthony not guilty of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. The case drew wide attention in part because Anthony did not report the girl's disappearance for several weeks. Wyoming county prosecutors told the committee on Thursday that they saw no need for such a law in the state.
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