- It is the second day into an inquiry into the 51-year-old's 2003 convictions for killing her three children
- Kathleen Folbigg told the inquiry she believed that "fate, karma, God" explained why "all this was happening"
- Folbigg also had to explain an entry where she wrote: "I deserve never to have kids again"
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Folbigg admitted she was short-tempered at times but that a diary entry that said one of her children had died "with a bit of help" was not help from her. Kathleen Folbigg again became emotional when she was forced to explain another diary entry from the year before her fourth child, Laura, was born, where she wrote: "I deserve never to have kids again." She said her diaries were random thoughts, and that in a "warped way" she believed that her children had chosen to leave her. Ms Folbigg repeatedly denied having anything to do with her deaths, or that her dark moods led her to harm her children."
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She wrote she would not have handled another child like her third-born, Sarah. Asked by Mr Blanch on what she meant, Folbigg replied: "I had a belief that fate, karma, God, um, a spiritual thing [that] there was another reason as to why all this was happening," she said. "That there were other things going on beyond my control." It prompted Mr Blanch to ask Folbigg if she believed there was some supernatural power which took the other three children away from her. Folbigg, now 51 years old, replied: "Yes, along those lines, yes, your honour." Doing 'terrible things' In evidence at day two of the inquiry on Tuesday morning, the prison inmate denied that she deliberately hid her personal diaries in her wardrobe before police searched her Singleton house. She told the inquiry the diaries were used in an inappropriate matter as evidence against her because when they were written they were just "random thoughts". Kathleen Folbigg denied that one diary entry about putting her children to sleep meant suffocating them. After the deaths of her first three children, when she was pregnant with her fourth child Laura, she wrote in a diary entry on New Year's Day 1997: "I am going to call for help this time, and not attempt to do everything myself any more."
"I know that that was the main reason for all my stress before, and stress made me do terrible things," she wrote.In court, Margaret Cunneen, who was formerly the barrister for Folbigg's former husband Craig, asked her: "What were the terrible things that stress made you do with your other children?"
Folbigg replied: "Terrible things is such a general term, terrible things can be anything."Folbigg admitted she was short-tempered at times but that a diary entry that said one of her children had died "with a bit of help" was not help from her. Kathleen Folbigg again became emotional when she was forced to explain another diary entry from the year before her fourth child, Laura, was born, where she wrote: "I deserve never to have kids again." She said her diaries were random thoughts, and that in a "warped way" she believed that her children had chosen to leave her.
Ms Cuneen: "The terrible things you were referring to is the smothering of your other children under great stress?"
Folbigg: "No, it's not referring to it at all"
Ms Folbigg repeatedly denied having anything to do with her deaths, or that her dark moods led her to harm her children."
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/c
