This woman had a pretty messed up childhood (no excuses).
When Kathleen was 2 years old, her father murdered her mother by stabbing her 24 times.
Kathleen was then placed into foster care with a couple for 1½ years, then removed and placed in a children's home, then placed into another foster care arrangement, then left school at 15 years old.
At 22 years old - she murdered her first baby
At 23 years old - she murdered her 2nd baby
At 26 years old - she murdered her 3rd baby
At 32 years old - she murdered her 4th baby
At 36 years old she was sentenced for three counts of murder, one count of manslaughter and one count of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Kathleen Folbigg - Wikipedia
New evidence challenges child-killer Kathleen Folbigg's convictions
This is pretty mind blowing. It will be interesting to watch this play out.
This woman had a pretty messed up childhood (no excuses).
When Kathleen was 2 years old, her father murdered her mother by stabbing her 24 times.
Kathleen was then placed into foster care with a couple for 1½ years, then removed and placed in a children's home, then placed into another foster care arrangement, then left school at 15 years old.
At 22 years old - she murdered her first baby
At 23 years old - she murdered her 2nd baby
At 26 years old - she murdered her 3rd baby
At 32 years old - she murdered her 4th baby
At 36 years old she was sentenced for three counts of murder, one count of manslaughter and one count of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Kathleen Folbigg - Wikipedia
Imagine how devastating it will be IF it does turn out she was innocent this whole time. To have that terrible trauma as a child, then lose 4 of your babies, get convicted of their murders and jailed, and on top of all that, have almost no one believe you, not even your husband. What a tragic story this might turn out to be. IMO
I don't know how they will ever be able to tell if she is guilty or not.
I guess the new genetic findings might be able to offer some reasonable doubt.
Will the courts hear her cases again? I wonder what can happen now ... if anyone will hear this 'new evidence'.
'I feel a lot more hopeful': Kathleen Folbigg's childhood friend welcomes scientists' push for pardon
Dozens of scientists have signed a petition calling for Kathleen Folbigg to be pardoned
A childhood friend of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg says she hopes new scientific evidence and a petition signed by 90 expert scientists and doctors will be enough to see her freed from prison.
Tracy Chapman has always believed her friend was innocent.
Law is antiquidated, particularly when dealing with women. It has largely been a service founded on patriarchial demands and so has science. When these systems become balanced and informed by feminist thought they will be vastly improved and modernised. IMOIf Folbigg is freed and her convictions are overturned, her ordeal will be seen as the worst miscarriage of justice in Australia's history - worse even than the case of Lindy Chamberlain, who served three years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering her baby, Azaria, at Uluru.
The petition exposes a troubling gulf in this case between science and the law.
Over several appeals and a detailed inquiry which re-examined Folbigg's convictions in 2019, Australia's judges have resolutely rejected the notion of reasonable doubt in her case, giving greater weight to the circumstantial evidence presented at her trial, and the ambiguous entries which she made in contemporaneous diaries.
"It remains that the only conclusion reasonably open is that somebody intentionally caused harm to the children, and smothering was the obvious method," said Reginald Blanch, a former judge who led the inquiry. "The evidence pointed to no person other than Ms Folbigg."
Kathleen Folbigg: Could science free Australian jailed for killing babies?