Kathleen Folbigg, imprisoned over baby deaths is pardoned
A lady, Kathleen Folbigg, once branded “Australia’s worst female serial killer” has been acquitted after new proof suggested she did not murder her four infant kids.
Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in jail after a jury found she murdered sons Caleb and Patrick and daughters Sarah and Laura over a decade.
But a recent investigation heard scientists think they may have died naturally.
The 55-year-old’s issue has been defined as one of Australia’s greatest miscarriages of justice. Ms Folbigg, who has always claimed her innocence, was imprisoned for 25 years in 2003 for the killings of three kids and the murder of her first son, Caleb.
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Each baby died unexpectedly between 1989 and 1999, aged 19 days and 19 months, with prosecutors at her trial alleging she had suffocated them.
Earlier appeals and a separate 2019 investigation into the matter found no bases for reasonable suspicion and gave greater weight to circumstantial proof in Ms Folbigg’s original trial.
But at the new inquiry, led by retired judge Tom Bathurst, prosecutors admitted that research on gene mutations had changed their understanding of the kids’ deaths.
On Monday, New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley said Mr Bathurst had figured that there was reasonable suspicion that Ms Folbigg was guilty.
