The Varied Paths to Justice for Wrongly Convicted Women
Kathleen Folbigg, who was imprisoned for killing her four children 20 years ago, has been pardoned after a rare mutation in a CALM gene was found to have caused the deaths of her two daughters via a rare syndrome called calmodulinopathy. The mutation affects one in 35 million people, and only 135 people worldwide have been known to have it. Folbigg's family is likely to be the only case in Australia. A different mutation could be responsible for the deaths of her two sons.