US EditionLawyer condemns $1.3 million compensation for Australian woman wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, AUG 7 – The New South Wales government offered $2 million after extensive review, but experts and Folbigg's lawyer say the sum is inadequate for two decades of wrongful imprisonment.
- An Australian woman wrongfully jailed for killing her children was offered $1.3 million in compensation, which her lawyer called "profoundly unfair and unjust".
- Kathleen Folbigg was imprisoned for 20 years before being acquitted in 2023 after new science showed her children died of natural causes.
- Her lawyer said the compensation amount "fails to reflect the extent of the pain and suffering" Folbigg endured during her wrongful imprisonment.
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'Australia's Worst Mother' Wins over €1m in Compensation for 20 Years She Spent Wrongfully in Prison
Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of the deaths of her four children in 2003, but was released in 2023, after a judicial review of her case - Reactions to the amount of compensation
Australian Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison for the murder of her four children before being acquitted in 2023. The case of the woman once publicly described as "Australia's worst mother" is now considered one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the country's history, for which legal experts say she should receive a record-breaking amount of compensation. But her lawyer Rhanee Rego announced on Thursday that the government had only …
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Lawyer condemns $1.3 million compensation for Australian woman wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years
The New South Wales government has decided to pay $1.3 million in compensation to Kathleen Folbigg, who spent 20 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing her four children.
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