Meadow's Law part 1: How an Australian mother was wrongfully jailed for killing her four children
Kathleen Folbigg was convicted over the deaths of her four babies in 2003 in a case that shocked Australia.
The first three were treated as cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) but when Laura died, the authorities looked to Meadow’s Law and arrested the grieving mother.
That controversial theory held that “one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder until proved otherwise”.
She always maintained her innocence.
In 2023 a judicial review found that the babies may have died of a genetic condition and having served nearly two decades in prison she was…
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