Politics and Dogs

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DINGO DID TAKE HER BABY


Azaria Chamberlain case has been solved and concluded that infact, the nine-week-old was taken by a dingo from her tent in Uluru, Australia.
The 1980 case divided the nation with Azaria’s disappearance and a mistaken murder conviction of her mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. The night Azaria disappeared, her family had been camping with six other groups on the east side of Ayers Rock. Azaria had been put to bed. Soon after, one of the campers heard a cry. Lindy Chamberlain went to check on her baby and screamed “My God, My God, a dingo has got my baby”. There was blood on the tent and dingo tracks. A search party of 300 people searched for Azaria, but she was never found.
The Azaria Chamberlain case became famous with the 1988 movie “A Cry in the Dark.”  At that time, Australians didn’t believe dingos were able to carry a baby away. No dingo attacks were documented in that time, but recently the wild dogs have been blamed for fatal attacks on children.
In a packed courtroom in Northern Territory, coroner Elizabeth Morris read the new findings, “I am satisfied that the evidence is sufficiently adequate, clear, cogent and exact, and that the evidence excludes all other reasonable possibilities, to find that what occurred on 17 August 1980 was that shortly after Mrs Chamberlain placed Azaria in the tent, a dingo or dingoes entered the tent, took Azaria and carried and dragged her from the immediate area,” she said.