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| Lindy Chaimberlain -Dingo Stole my baby | |
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| Topic Started: 31 May 2009, 11:25 AM (43 Views) | |
| High Priestess | 31 May 2009, 11:25 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.lindychamberlain.com/content/home That poor woman. It was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neil, named "A Cry in the Dark". Her innocence was eventually proved. It seems a Dingo is not so weak-jawed that it cannot snatch and carry a baby the distance. We all ought to feel very sorry for Lindy. Lo  Also click on the story link to the left menu |
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| Ruum Taedor | 31 May 2009, 12:49 PM Post #2 |
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I don't know all the details, but based on the little I know of it, yes, it is a shame. One of those cases where the truth initially sounds very unlikely and is difficult to prove. I don't even know how I would have gone about proving that a Dingo could carry a baby. Justice prevailed in the end, but the woman had to endure a hardship she didn't deserve. |
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| High Priestess | 1 Jun 2009, 09:08 AM Post #3 |
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Point in case, one of the things that went against Lindy was her refusal to put on an act for the jury. She was innocent, she was hounded and hated by the populace at large and the subject of some seriously bad press and in response to it, she spoke her mind and refused to "pretend" at being the victim to win sympathy. She WAS the victim and she was outraged by people judging her and acted accordingly which made her look hard and uncompromising to many misinformed onlookers. She was jailed whilst pregnant and had to miss out on the first few years of her baby girl's life. I believe the baby was about 10lbs in weight and in watering holes across Australia, paunchy men were all saying that there was no way that a dingo could carry a baby of that weight in it's jaws. Had the baby's matinee jacket not been recovered and tested years later (and that was some very fortunate find in an area the size of Ayres Rock and the surrounds), she'd probably still be rotting away in some jail. God must have been shining down on that woman and justice was finally served upon her release. That jacket was just meant to be found and the two men who found it must have known at once they had stumbled across a valuable piece of evidence - so prominent a case it was. |
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| Cajunbug | 3 Jun 2009, 05:15 PM Post #4 |
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I saw that movie and it was very well made. I cried thru most of it. I am very happy that she was finally proven inncocent. I do believe in some animal documentry it has been said that a dingo can carry more that its weight in food like when they down an animal and carry off some of the meat so a baby the size that was shown in the movie would have been easy for a dingo to carry off. They are related to wolves and they have powerful jaws. If I remember correctly the men in the camp didn't like her anyway so the men would not say anything good on her behalf. |
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| High Priestess | 5 Jun 2009, 04:55 PM Post #5 |
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Agreed, they found her brash and "direct" which again, is why they were quick to suspect her too. She went to put her baby in the tent then went to check and found only blood after a dingo was already being fed scraps at the camp BBQ. Nobody witnessed anything, Lindy included. It was certainly a case built around circumstantial evidence but it just serves to prove we should be a bit more liberal minded before we judge others, no matter how stacked the circumstantial evidence is against them. Lots of mothers of cot death have been wrongly jailed here Sis (a few have been freed). |
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| Cajunbug | 5 Jun 2009, 08:02 PM Post #6 |
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When I saw the movie...I thought then that she was innocent and glad I was proved right. We call it Crib Death here and that was the thing I feared the most to happen to my girls when they were babies. I would check on them many times during the night to make sure they was still breathing. I had a distant cousin who lost a baby to Crib Death and she never really got over it. She laid her down for an afternoon nap and when she went back the baby was no longer breathing. She was 3 months old. When she had other babies (5 more) she too would worry till they were a year old which is the age that there is no longer any danger. |
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| High Priestess | 16 Jun 2009, 07:26 AM Post #7 |
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That's real sad, Sis. I never had babies so can't really appreciate the anxiety that comes with being a mother. There's such a thing as Adult Cot Death too, did you know that? A friend of mine died from it aged 44. |
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