In 1989, Kathleen married Craig Folbigg and they had their first child. CalebDied at 19 days. The baby had a traumatic birth and laryngomalacia (a drooping larynx) causes a partial obstruction in the airways. Hospital reports reflect that the baby had difficulty eating and breathing at the same time. She died in her sleep on day 19 and her death was classified as sudden infant death syndrome.
second son
patrickat the age of four months HIGH, a potentially fatal acute event. The boy was out of breath and was taken to the hospital. shortly after development severe epilepsy with blindness. Doctors suspected he had epileptic encephalopathy, and he died during an epileptic seizure at the age of eight months. There was nothing suspicious on the death certificate.
third son
born in 1992 Sarahan apparently healthy girl at 10 months of age respiratory infection accompanied by fever, and died in his sleep. Sudden infant death, a syndrome that scientists are becoming increasingly clear that it has a genetic basis often associated with cardiovascular arrhythmias, was also featured in the medical report.
fourth son
And later, the Folbigg couple dies from a fourth daughter. laura. A friend of Kathleen’s who took care of her says it was an isolated incident where the girl lost consciousness and stopped breathing, but overall she was fine by 18 months and died. He had a fever a few days ago, and when they did the autopsy, they saw something. heart muscle inflammation, a fairly severe heart infection, enough to be listed as the cause of death. But the coroner was told there were three earlier deaths, citing “for an undetermined reason”. Laura’s problems also had a genetic basis. There is little doubt today that his death was also natural.
Newspaper
The marriage falls apart, and Craig discovers one day that Kathleen has written about it in her personal diary. Sarah left “with a little help”. However, he went to the police, who had met him before and had repeatedly insisted that his wife was innocent. is a newspaper. Carola Garcia de Vinuesa, Kathleen never hid and was incorrectly used as evidence at the trial. “The newspapers were never delivered to the court, only individual sentences that were easy to misinterpret, out of context. In addition, the judge, who examined the case in 2019, said that he did not seek the help of any expert to examine the newspapers, and that his own criteria were sufficient. After that judge denied the genetic findings and reaffirmed Folbigg’s guilt in July 2019, based on the diaries, Kathleen’s lawyers asked seven of the world’s leading psychiatric and forensic psychology and linguistics experts to examine Kathleen’s diaries. All agreed nothing accusatory. The newspapers reflected that she felt stressed, responsible and depressed, as would be expected from a woman whose four children are dying and who is actually a very good mother”, García de Vinuesa insisted.
Sentence
Kathleen Folbigg by Australian court in 2003 40 years in prisonHe was reduced to 30 years in 2005 for murdering his three children and murdering the other.