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Convicted of murdering her 4 children, woman acquitted after 20 years in prison

2023-06-05 10:36:49Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Convicted of murdering her 4 children, woman acquitted after 20 years in prison
Kathleen Folbigg

Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison after allegedly killing her four young children sons Caleb and Patrick and daughters Sarah and Laura. But a recent investigation has led scientists to believe that the juveniles may have died of natural causes.

The 55-year-old's case has been described as one of Australia's biggest miscarriages of justice.

Mrs Folbigg, who has always maintained her innocence, was jailed for 25 years in 2003 for murdering three of the children and killing her first son, Caleb. Each of her children died suddenly between 1989 and 1999, aged 19 days to 19 months, and prosecutors at her trial claimed she suffocated them.

At the new inquest, chaired by retired judge Tom Bathurst, prosecutors admitted that research into gene mutations had changed their understanding of the child deaths.

As a result, the NSW governor signed a full pardon and ordered Ms Folbigg's immediate release from prison.

Convicted of murdering her 4 children, woman acquitted after 20 years in prison

If her convictions are overturned, she could sue the government for millions of dollars in damages. She could receive a settlement similar to that of Lindy Chamberlain, who was awarded $1.3 million in 1992 for her wrongful conviction in the death of her daughter Azaria.

Ms Folbigg's 2003 trial focused on circumstantial evidence, particularly diaries detailing her struggles with motherhood. But there was no physical evidence of suffocation or injury to the children presented at trial.

At the latest inquest, experts suggested the diaries were a coping mechanism written by a grieving mother with limited support and that it was unlikely the four children drowned without a trace.

The main evidence proving her innocence came from a team of immunologists who discovered that Ms Folbigg's daughters, Sarah and Laura, had a genetic mutation that can cause sudden cardiac death. Evidence was also discovered that her sons, Caleb and Patrick, possessed a different genetic mutation linked to epilepsy.


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