Dingo Took Azaria Chamberlain, Coroner Finds

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Source: News.com.au

Dingo took Azaria Chamberlain, coroner finds

June 12, 2012 11:02AM

Adelaide Now, 3 hours ago

A Dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.

Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom today that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.

Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.

A smiling Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, flanked by her son Aidan, told the waiting media outside a Darwin court that Australia was a “dangerous country” and her story had now been vindicated.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/dingo-took-azaria-coroner-finds/story-e6frfkvr-1226392715293

[Swagman]

1. the shocking way Lindy was treated and jailed is a great example

of the media running riot.

www.thesocialshuttle.com

[XemaSab]

2. Also, trial in the court of public opinion

[obamanut2012]

8. And demonining her religion

Her family was SDA.

She also had one Prosecutor "expert" who was inept, and one who was a corrupt liar, and both of their testimony was heavily used against her.

[Matilda]

6. And why there should be stricter rules governing the media

In any matter that's likely to go to court, I think there should be controls on what can be printed or broadcast, and heavy penalties for violations. "Sub Judice" doesn't seem to mean anything any more.

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3. gee, only 32 years to vindication.

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[Jessica3344]

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[dipsydoodle]

7. Australian coroner rules dingo was responsible for baby death 30 years ago

Settling a 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken murder conviction, an Australian coroner ruled that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.

The eyes of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and her ex-husband, Michael Chamberlain, welled with tears as the findings of the fourth inquest into the disappearance of their nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, were announced in court.

Lindy Chamberlain served more than three years in prison for the baby's death, but was later cleared and has always maintained that a wild dog took her.

“We're relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga,” a tearful but smiling Mrs Chamberlain-Creighton told reporters outside the court in the northern city of Darwin.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australian-coroner-rules-dingo-was-responsible-for-baby-death-30-years-ago-7843636.html

[obamanut2012]

9. Finally -- good for Lindy and Michael

And their children. And, a kind of legal peace for Azaria.

She would have been given the death penalty in the Unites States.

[Psephos]

10. Maybe not...consider Casey Anthony. n/t

[obamanut2012]

11. Casey Anthony was found not guilty

And the case wasn't considered a DP case, except by the whacko DA. I think a closer case would be Andrea Yates, who was initially found guilty of capital murder.

[Psephos]

12. Which was exactly my point.

I am absolutely against capital punishment, btw.