Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Lawyers for an Australian Kathleen Folbigg, who spent two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing her four children as infants, have dismissed a $1.3 million compensation offer from the government as "woefully inadequate."
Folbigg's lawyer, Rhanee Rego called the payout -- which was only around a fifth of the $6.5 million or more that experts had expected the 58-year-old to receive -- "profoundly unfair and unjust" and demanded an independent review of the decision.
"The sum offered is a moral affront -- woefully inadequate and ethically indefensible. The system has failed Kathleen Folbigg once again," Rego said in a statement.
New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley said the decision -- which came 19 months after she was acquitted of the murder of Patrick, Sarah and Laura and the manslaughter of Caleb -- was the result of "thorough and extensive" review of Folbigg's compensation claim.
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