Kathleen Folbigg has revealed she does not know the location of her four children’s ashes.
Ms Folbigg was convicted of three counts of murder and one of manslaughter in 2003 after her babies Patrick, Sarah, Laura and Caleb died in suspicious circumstances between 1989 and 1999, all of whom were cremated.
She was released on June 5, 20 years later, upon receiving a pardon from NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley after an inquiry into her conviction found reasonable doubt.
In her first sit-down interview since being released, Ms Folbigg detailed her time behind bars on charges that made her a target.
After being released however, Ms Folbigg attended the cemetery where her children’s ashes were stored only to find they were no longer there.
Kathleen Folbigg (pictured), who was wrongfully imprisoned for the deaths of her four children has revealed in her first sit down interview that she does not know the location of their ashes
‘We’ve gone there to visit (the cemetery) since she has come home but it appears the ashes are taken out of their place on the cemetery wall,’ Tracy Chapman, Ms Folbigg’s friend, told the Sunday Telegraph.
‘They are no longer there.’
While speaking to Seven’s Spotlight, Ms Folbigg recounted her time behind bars and how she was labelled ‘the kid killer’ or a ‘filthy piece of s***’ for a crime she hadn’t committed.
Other inmates would antagonise Ms Folbigg, with some ‘yelling out all night or screaming abuse at me or threats, death threats’.
Just a couple of years ago one of those threats had come true, with two fellow inmates working together in order to attack her.
‘One decided to guard the door, one chick came running in and just literally punched me in the face,’ Ms Folbigg said.
‘I didn’t respond in any way because it was a surprise, a surprise attack, (I got) the biggest purple shiner you could ever have seen.
‘But I didn’t do anything about it because, unfortunately, jail code is you just don’t.’
According to Ms Chapman, Ms Folbigg is still ‘institutionalised’ from 20 years in prison and in many ways prisoner 323130 when it comes to day-to-day life.
The inquiry into her convictions found scientific and psychiatric evidence that led Chief Justice Tom Bathurst to hold the opinion that there was reasonable doubt surround Ms Folbigg’s innocence.
In his report, Mr Bathurst said he held ‘a firm view that there was reasonable doubt as to the guilt of Ms Folbigg for each of the offences for which she was originally tried’.
Ms Folbigg (pictured) was convicted of three counts of murder and one of manslaughter in 2003 for the suspicious deaths of her children between 1989 and 1999
During the interview, Ms Folbigg revealed that she had been attacked during her 20-years in prison by fellow inmates who had labeled her a ‘kid killer’ and a ‘pice of s***’
The report said scientific advances showed there was a ‘reasonable possibility three of the children died of natural causes’ and that Mr Bathurst was ‘unable to accept… the proposition that Ms Folbigg was anything but a caring mother for her children’.
‘In the case of Sarah and Laura Folbigg, there is a reasonable possibility a genetic mutation known as CALM2-G114R occasioned their deaths,’ the findings said.
In relation to the death of the fourth child, Mr Bathurst found ‘the coincidence and tendency evidence which was central to the (2003) Crown case falls away’.
This genetic mutation was not discovered by medical scientists until years after the deaths, and would not have been investigated at the time, the inquiry was told.
A 2021 scientific report suggested at least the deaths of Laura, who died at 18 months, and her older sister Sarah, who previously died at 10 months, were linked to a rare genetic variant.
During the inquiry, medical experts discussed the possibility that Laura and Sarah had the rare genetic mutations CALM2G114R, which is linked to long QT syndrome, a heart-signalling disorder that can cause fast, chaotic heartbeats or arrhythmias.
7NEWS Spotlight – Unbroken: The Kathleen Folbigg Story will air on Channel 7 and 7Plus at 7pm on Sunday.
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