Mothers who are wrongfully convicted
Data from the US shows one in three wrongfully convicted women were convicted of crimes that involved harming their children or those in their care. More than 70% of these convictions were based on crimes which never took place, such as mothers being accused of murdering children when their death was an accident or due to natural causes. Women are three times more likely than men to be wrongly convicted for crimes that didn’t occur.
Other women who were wrongfully convicted of the murder of their children in the US, such as Michelle Murphy and Julie Rea, have reported similar difficulties in working through their grief while also experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, difficulty finding employment, and dealing with ongoing suspicion that they are in fact guilty of the crimes they have been exonerated for.
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