Coroner rules that dingo killed baby 32 years ago

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/11/152018/coroner-rules-that-dingo-killed.html

Posted on Monday, June 11, 2012Modified Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Coroner rules that dingo killed baby 32 years ago

Frank Walker | Deutsche Presse-Agentur

SYDNEY — A coroner ruled Tuesday that a dingo did take baby Azaria Chamberlain from her tent in the central Australian desert in 1980, ending a saga that saw the baby's mother jailed for murder and later exonerated.

Northern Territory coroner Elizabeth Morris told a courtroom in Darwin there was sufficient evidence to conclude that a wild dog took the baby and pulled it from its clothes, which were later found. The child's body was never located.

"The cause of her death was as the result of being attacked and taken by a dingo," Morris ruled.
The coroner offered her sympathy to the Chamberlain family in the courtroom. She said they could immediately obtain a death certificate for Azaria stating a dingo was the cause of her death.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, who spent three years in jail wrongly convicted of killing her baby, tearfully hugged relatives and supporters after the decision.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Man! Having read this, I really feel for Lindy. She saw the dingo take Azaria away

and she tried to go after it, but it disappeared in the brush. Then she was labeled and convicted as the killer of her own baby and went to prison, was hated among the Australians, was divorced by her husband, and for thirty-two years, had this cloud of guilty hanging over her head even though she knew the truth about what happened to her baby. The hell this woman had to go through all these decades is something I, thankfully, would never have to suffer.

I really do feel for the woman. It made me very sad for her.

[Beacool]

4. poor woman, she went through hell.

I'm glad that at least now she has been vindicated and can finally find some peace.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. Me, too. I was very sad last night after reading

that it took 32 years to vindicate her and I was thinking how would I have held up all those years were I her. Maybe it's a little too much on my part, but I actually cried. That's how sad this made me. Anyway, just as you said, she can finally find some peace and that gives me solace.

[MerryBlooms]

2. ...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. I hate it when people are alleged to have committed murder because....

.... they don't act like "grieving" loved ones.

If anyone around me ever dies under suspicious circumstances I'm screwed. My boyfriend says I don't have tear ducts.

[Romulox]

6. What a nightmare for this woman and her family. Words fail. nt