O le faai'uga a le faamasino, o loo lava molimau i le iai o masaloga tala feagai (resonable doubt) e fesiligia ai pe na faia e Kathleen Folbigg solitulafono o lona fasiotia o lana fanau e to'a 4.
Na ia faafetaia ana uo ma lona aiga ma i latou na talitonuina lana tali mai le amataga na te le'i faa'o'oina le oti i lana fanau.
“I'm extremely humbled and extremely grateful for being pardoned and releasedfrom prison..."My eternal gratitude goes to my friends and family, especially Tracy and all of her family, and I would not have survived this whole ordeal without them.”
O Kathleen Folbigg na aumaia iai le faai'uga a le faamasinoga i le 2003 na faamaonia ai ona moliaga i le fasiotia o lana fanau e to'a 4.
Ma o le tele o molimau na toe iloiloina ai e le faamasinoga ona moliaga na faavae i le poto ma le malamalama fou faasaienisi ma faafoma'i; na faaigaoina e Folbigg, o se manumalo o le poto saienisi ma le mea moni.
Na saunoa le palemia Anthony Albanese....
“I think it, it is an extraordinary set of circumstances and I am certain, the obvious is that Kathleen Folbigg will be very relived today.”
Na saunoa fo'i le palemia setete o New South Wales, Chris Minns.....
“Given the circumstances and the deaths involved, I think that you’d have to be heartless not to feel enormous emotion associated with the decision and obviously her 20 years in prison."
O se tasi na sili ona malosi lona lagolagoina o Kathleen Folbigg, o sana uo mamae i le tele o tausaga Tracy Chapman, ma na mausali lona talitonuga i le sese o le faai'uga na aumaia e le faamasinoga i le 2003. Na ia faaalia le tele o lesona e tatau ona maua mai i le faai'uga lenei ua sa'oloto ai Kathleen Folbigg.
“There’s a lot of things that could have been done better with this case so we’d like to see a significant amount of reform in the system. A lot more empathy in the space. I keep saying that but it’s true.”
Na malos lafoga a le loia na tula'i mo Kathleen Folbigg, le tama'ita'i o Rhanee Rego. Na ia saunoa sa tatau i le amataga ona faia se su'esu'ega faapitoa se inquest i le maliliu o tamaiti. Peita'i na vave ona faia le faai'uga e toso Kathleen i le faamasinoga ma faasalaina ai i le falepuipui.
“Instead of trying to understand why her children died, potentially through an inquest which was said should have happened all the way back in 2001, we threw her in jail, locked her up, called her Australia’s worst female serial killer, put her in solitary. So I mean, how would any of you feel to have that happen to you? It’s unimaginable.”
O le faai'uga lenei ua toe lalaga mai ai le vala'au a nisi mo se Komisi faapitoa e iloiloina faai'uga e aumaia e pei ona sa aumaia ia Kathleen Folbigg i le 2003, se Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission.
O Komisi tuto'atasi nei ua iai i atunu'u o Aotearoa/Niu Sila, Norway ma Peretania, ma e mafai ona latou iloiloina ni faai'uga e manatu seisi e le o amiotonu.
E pei ona saunoa Professor Arlie Loughnan o le A'oga faa-loia i le Iunivesite o Sini...
“This sort of body exists alongside the appeals process and where it becomes a particularly useful vehicle is in cases just like Kathleen Folbigg’s where the evidence that supported her, the outcome of the inquiry, became available only after she had exhausted her appeals, so in that sense it’s something that could augment the system we have.”
Ae mo le tina ia Kathleen Folbigg, ua toe maua lona sa'olotoga, ae e le mafai ona toe maua mai lana fanau.
"For the last 20 years I have been in prison, I have forever and will always think of my children, grieve for my children and I miss them and love them terribly."
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