Woman pardoned in Australia after serving 20 years for killing four children (4 photos)
The woman was convicted and sent to a maximum security prison, calling her a child killer without direct evidence of her guilt. 
The monstrous error of the investigation cost the Australian Kathleen Folbigg 20 years behind bars. As if she hadn't suffered enough before court accusations!
Kathleen Folbigg is an unfortunate mother who lost one in another four (!) children. Between 1989 and 1999, her babies died in infancy or barely reaching the age of 1.5 years. During this time the woman lost Caleb (died at the age of 19 days), Patrick (8 months), Sarah (10 months) and Elizabeth (19 months). Each subsequent death the child was alarmed by the public, which did not believe in such matches. 
In 2003, Katherine was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder. three children and manslaughter of another child. Such the decision was made by the court, despite the lack of direct evidence. As one of the evidence, the investigation put forward entries in the diary, which led by an unfortunate mother. There she described her life, remarking that "motherhood is not easy for her" and that "she blames herself for the death of her children." The investigation hooked on the record “With Sarah, the only thing I wanted was shut her up. And one day she shut up, ”taking it as direct evidence murders. 
Prosecutors insisted on the death of children by suffocation, and the mother was blamed for the death of the babies, despite the fact that pathologists did not find any extraneous marks on the children's bodies. Folbigg's lawyers have repeatedly filed appeals and initiated a new investigation of the case, but Katherine continued to serve her sentence, although court and later declared her innocence.
In 2021, 90 scientists signed a petition to reconsider the case Folbigg. Among scientists who are confident in the need for more thorough investigation, there were specialists in rare genetic diseases, as well as two Australian Nobel laureates. Scientists believed that new discoveries in science could shed light on this story. AND although such coincidences as death from natural causes at once four there were no infants in the practice of recent years, it was necessary give a woman a chance to justify herself if she is not guilty.
Shortly thereafter, former state judge Thomas Bathurst held own check by appointing a new forensic examination. Group immunologists found Folbigg's two dead daughters (and herself, by the way) a mutation in the CALM2 gene, which can cause (or not) sudden cardiac arrest. The two dead sons of an Australian woman were also not healthy, they had another mutation - the BSN gene. This gene disruption has previously been studied in mice, and it was found that it is she who causes sudden epileptic seizures. As for the diary, the inconsolable mother kept him in an attempt to cope with grief, and even to strangle the children, not leaving them bodies of traces, it is impossible - the experts finally concluded. 
The Governor of New South Wales signed an order to pardon, and on June 5, 2023 at 11:00 a.m., Katherine Folbigg was released. Now she is 55 years old, 20 of which she spent behind bars in prison. strict regime, despised by society, loved ones and everyone who learned about a crime that the woman did not actually commit.
