"Murder in the nursery"
Australian mom killed her 4 babies
TORONTO SUN, May 23, 2003
It seemed a tragic coincidence - at first.
Craig and Kathleen Folbigg's first son died in his sleep at 19 days old. Their next child, Patrick, died two years later at nine months.
Still, it was after their fourth baby died before Australian police suspected something was terribly wrong.
In Sydney's New South Wales State Supreme Court this week, Kathleen Folbigg, 35, was found guilty of killing all four of her babies.
The jury's work would have been made much easier if they had been allowed to read Folbigg's entire secret diary. In it, she practically confesses to following in her dad's deadly footsteps.
"Obviously I am my father's daughter," the Australian woman wrote in her diary Oct. 14, 1996, having already killed three of her four children.
"But I think losing my temper and being frustrated and everything has passed. I now just let things happen and go with the flow. An attitude I should of had with all my children, if given the chance, I'll have it with the next one."
Folbigg was pregnant at the time with her fourth child. She would go on to kill her as well. More..
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Mother arrested in death of her 2 children
CBC News, Wednesday, October 4, 2006
A 31-year-old mother has been arrested after her two children were found dead in an apartment in Barrie, Ont., early Wednesday morning.
The two girls, aged one and three, were found in a highrise apartment on Coulter Street located between Sunnidale Park and Bayfield Mall in the west end of the city. Barrie is about 80 kilometres north of Toronto.
Investigators arrived on the scene around 6 a.m. ET after receiving a 911 call from the mother, police said.
She was taken to the hospital for examination, then brought to a police station.
Longtime residents of the building were shocked to hear news of the double homicide, as were police.
"It's obviously a tragic event not only for people who are related and associated to the children, but also for the police officers involved," Barrie police Sgt. Dave Goodbrand said.
No cause of death or identities have been released.
A coroner and the police identification unit were on the scene, while investigators conducted field interviews.
With files from the Canadian Press
