An Australian woman who has been imprisoned for 20 years over the deaths of her four children has been pardoned and freed after new scientific evidence suggested they died of natural causes.
An Australian woman who has been imprisoned for 20 years over the deaths of her four children was pardoned and freed Monday after new scientific evidence suggested they died of natural causes as she had always maintained.
Bathurst has been reviewing Folbigg’s 2003 convictions of the manslaughter of her son Caleb, the infliction of grievous bodily harm on her son Patrick and the murder of her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura. An earlier inquiry, which ended in 2019, concluded that there was no reasonable doubt as to Folbigg’s guilt. The second inquiry was prompted by a 2021 petition in which 90 scientists and medical professionals argued that new scientific evidence “creates a strong presumption that the Folbigg children died of natural causes.”
In Patrick’s case, Bathurst said an “underlying neurogenic disorder” could have caused his sudden death. He also criticized the prosecution’s reliance on diary entries in which Folbigg expressed feelings of guilt but did not directly admit to killing any of her children.
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