Was’ the most hateful woman in Australia»Is expected to receive $ 2 million Australia (US $ 1.31 million) as compensation for her unfair imprisonment for the deaths of her four children.
The compensation was offered by the state of New South Wales in Australia to 58 -year -old Kathleen Folming but her lawyer rejected the amount as “unfair and unjust”.
Foling was sentenced in 2003 to the murder of her three children and for homicide in relation to the death of the fourth. He then received grace, released and her convictions were undoing in 2023, After an independent research that found new scientific evidence that children may die of natural causes or due to genetic mutation.
Today (07.08.2025), the State Justice Minister Michael Daley He said the government had offered ex Gratia an amount to Folming after a “extensive examination” of its claim for compensation in July 2024. Such a payment is made on a voluntary basis and did not arise from a legal obligation.
Foling’s lawyer, Raini Regio, characterized the payment ‘Particularly unfair and unjustified’ As she does not reflect the size of the suffering that her client experienced, and requested research on how the amount was determined.
Children, between 19 days and 18 months, died over a period of 10 years, from 1989 to 1999.
The Following He was sentenced in 2003 on the basis of the prosecution’s case that each of her children strangled, despite the lack of relevant evidence. The 40 -year sentence imposed on her was then reduced to 30 years.
At that time, press reports was referred to as the “most hated woman in Australia” and “monster”.
A 2019 judicial investigation found evidence in favor of Foling’s guilt. However, a second investigation re -examined its convictions in 2022 and concluded that there were reasonable doubts about its guilt.