Australian woman pardoned after death of her babies: “It’s a victory for science, and especially for truth”

Reuters

for Australian Kathleen Folbigg, Pardoned after spending two decades in prison for murdering her four babies, her case is “a victory for science, and especially for truth.” This was stated in a video released this Tuesday, after he spent his first night outside prison on a farm Tracy Chapman, her childhood friend who always believed in her innocence.

In a video that lasts about 30 seconds, in which he appears with a calm and sometimes smiling face, Folbigg says he feels “extremely humble” and “grateful” for pardon and release.

On her first night out, the 55-year-old enjoyed small pleasures, such as drinking tea in “glass of truth”eat pizza and sleep in “king bed”, on a hard mattress and without waking up when changing sides with the creaking of the springs. It also began to adapt technology that did not exist when he entered prison, smartphones, according to what Tracy Chapman told the Australian press.

In the pictures, Kathleen Folbigg is seen in the kitchen of her friend’s house, which is located in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales (Eastern Australian state), holding a bouquet of flowers as she recounts her crossroads and shows her gratitude to those who have always supported her.

I remember your children

“For the last 20 years that I have been in prison, I have always thought and will always think of my children, I will cry for my children and I missed and loved them terribly,” she adds, recalling how her babies always accompanied her during the two decades she spent behind bars.

As reported by the Australian media, the woman wants to recover her diaries, which were key to the opening of the investigation against her the ashes of his children.

Folbigg was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2003, reduced to 30 years in 2005, for the deaths of her children (Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura) between 1989 and 1999, when they were between 19 days and 18 months old.

However, his case was reopened last year, after publication in a specialized journal Europe scientific research under the guidance of a Spanish immunologist Carol García de Vinueswhich linked a genetic mutation (CALM2) in two of Folbigg’s daughters, Sarah and Laura, to sudden cardiac death, as well as the discovery that the children carried rare gene variants.