The benefit of hindsight
According to Hannah Ritchie, Kathleen Folbigg was jailed for murdering her children because PaTriArchY aNd MisOGyNy
™. But, of course dear.
Actually, it seems her biggest enemy was massive misfortune. All four of her children died aged between the ages of nineteen days and eighteen months. And, while sudden infant death syndrome was known at the time of her conviction in 2003, four deaths seemed beyond coincidence.
In their reasoning, they [the prosecution] cited a now widely discredited legal concept known as "Meadow's Law", which contends that "one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder until proved otherwise".
Hannah Ritchie, BBC News
And four is what?
What science has shown, in the intervening years, is that each child had potentially fatal gene mutations. I don't know if the deaths have been causally linked to the specific mutation that each child expressed, or whether the conclusion is a case of general arm-waving. But, with hindsight, a genetic relationship seems an obvious plausible counter-explanation to filicide for sibling deaths, and should a least play into the balance of presumed innocence. Then again, hindsight is 20/20.
Oh, and PaTriArchY aNd MisOGyNy
™, because naturally. (rolleyes)