“She has endured the death of her four children and has been wrongly incarcerated because the justice system has failed her," a petition, signed by 90 scientists, medical practitioners and other professionals, states in pushing for a pardon for Kathleen Folbigg.
Pleasant Hill Police and the Department of Human Services began investigating claims of abuse after the severely malnourished 16-year-old was brought to adoptive mother Jennifer Ryan’s work place and allegedly tied to a chair with zip ties.
Brian Earl Johnston allegedly lit his estranged wife Kelly Wilkson on fire in front of three young children, following months of her making domestic violence complaints against him.
Paiden Nicole Priest and her son, Grayson Alexander Beckham, were found shot to death, while her husband David Wayne Priest died in a hospital from gunshot wounds early Sunday morning in northwest Arkansas.
Moments before the fatal blaze, authorities say John Newport had poured gasoline throughout the home and on her four beloved kittens before lighting the fire that trapped her inside as she tried to save the small animals.