Re: "A Dingo Took my Baby" 40 Years on
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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Forty years ago today 9 week old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her tent at Ayers Rock (Uluru).
Like most people my wife and I were convinced she was guilty based on the scientific evidence (eg blood spatter in the car which was later proved to be sound proofing material) and the parent's strange behavior at the time.
Forty years ago today, Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo at Uluru in the Northern Territory.
What followed was an exhaustive criminal case that divided the nation, and a miscarriage of justice that has echoed through decades of Australian history.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-...rs-on/12563336
A very sad case, do you remember it?
I remember it well as I was in Australia shortly afterwards and by happen chance met an elderly man who knew the family. -He said that girl would never kill her baby she was a good mother .
The fact is that she was tried by ignorant public opinion .
Her stern demeanour and the fact that they were seven day Adventists
Their were dingos around the campsite scrounging for food and some had lost their fear of tourists .
An aboriginal tracker reported that she had found evidence of a dingo carring weight near the tent .
Her evidence was discounted because she was a woman and the fact she spoke through a translator .( and interesting combination of gender and racist discrimination.)
The Darwin authorities were out to get this woman they knew she was innocent .
This case has echos today in the McCann case who the ignorant would have parents swinging from a lamp post these long years past .
In both cases there was absolutely no evidence whatsoever against the parents .