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The Lab Detective

The Slow Newscast

2025

Kathleen Folbigg (b. 1967) was made a Ward of the State when she was 18 months old, after the murder of her mother by her father. At age 3 she was moved from foster care into a children's home and then into a more permanent foster care placement. In 2003, Folbigg was wrongly convicted of murdering three infant children, and the manslaughter of the fourth.

She was pardoned in 2023 and her convictions overturned a few months later.

After spending decades in jail, a scientist working in a lab uncovered the truth behind the deaths.

Research published in 2020 to 90 scientists & medical professionals to petition the NSW Governor to pardon Folbigg.



Trauma warning: This archive contains material relating to care experience including references to abuse, neglect, sexual violence, and institutional harm.

 

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


Website set up with support from The Welland Trust 

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