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Kathleen Folbigg, convicted of killing her children acquitted

2023-06-05T12:12:38.796Z

Highlights: Kathleen Folbigg was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2003 on charges of killing her four children. The children, aged between 19 days and 19 months, died suddenly between 1989 and 1999. immunologists have discovered that the woman's two daughters shared a genetic mutation - called CALM2 G114R - that can cause sudden cardiac death. The two sons, however, had a different genetic mutation, linked to sudden epilepsy in mice. Now he could sue the government, demanding millions of dollars in compensation.


First portrayed as a murderer, convicted of taking the lives of her four children. Now, instead, as a victim, because according to scientists in reality that heinous crime never committed. (ANSA)


First portrayed as a murderer, convicted of taking the lives of her four children. Now, instead, as a victim, because according to scientists in reality that heinous crime never committed. This is the story of Kathleen Folbigg, so far known as "Australia's worst female serial killer", whose fate, however, seems to be rewritten.
In 2003 the woman, who has always professed her innocence, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of killing her children, aged between 19 days and 19 months, who died suddenly between 1989 and 1999. According to prosecutors' indictments, Folbigg suffocated them, but today some new scientific evidence proves otherwise. A team of immunologists has discovered that the woman's two daughters shared a genetic mutation - called CALM2 G114R - that can cause sudden cardiac death. The two sons, however, had a different genetic mutation, linked to sudden epilepsy in mice.
According to Professor Carola Vinuesa, who led the research team at the Australian National University, an unusual genetic sequence was immediately apparent in Ms Folbigg's DNA, even before the children's samples were tested. Such cases, however, are very rare. According to Vinuesa, there are 134 worldwide.
Kathleen Folbigg was released this morning. Now he could sue the government, demanding millions of dollars in compensation.

Source: ansa

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