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Casey set to change her name

She can hide from the public — but not her conscience.

Casey Anthony will change her name and don disguises to evade an outraged public when she’s sprung from an Orlando jailhouse Sunday, after a jury shockingly acquitted her last week of murdering her 2-year-old daughter.

She even considered plastic surgery, a source close to her defense team said.

“There even have been discussions about cosmetic surgery, but Casey has rejected that,” the source told the Chicago Sun-Times.

One issue is that the Casey, 25 — who has received death threats since the unexpected verdict — has been in jail for three years, and doesn’t comprehend how loathsome she’s become.

“Casey really does not completely understand the depth of hatred out there,” the source said.

Upon her release, she’ll assume a pseudonym “almost as if she was living in a witness protection-like program,” the source said.

“If she moves on to another location, then it becomes someone else’s responsibility,” Orlando Sheriff Jerry Demings said. “We will not be providing security or protection for Casey once she leaves.”

Anthony was convicted of lying to police, although most of her sentence was completed with time served.

Jurors were never even close to convicting her, despite her web of lies and her hard-partying ways while her toddler, Caylee, was missing.

“We were all very disgusted with that,” the jury foreman, a gym teacher, told “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on Fox News Channel. ” Still, he said, when the jurors made their first “prevote” on July 4, “It was 10-2 . . . It was 10 innocent, two guilty,” he said.

Meanwhile, the sheriff’s office is exploring allegations of witness tampering, but those accusations don’t involve Anthony’s 53-year-old mother, Cindy, Demings said.

Demings would not say who was accused or disclose any details about the specific allegations.

But he said he was weighing perjury charges against Cindy for allegedly lying on the witness stand, although a spokesman for the state attorney’s office said she wouldn’t be charged.

chuck.bennett@nypost.com