The Kerry Babies Case: A Woman to Blame

by Nell McCafferty

Overview

Joanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the murder, by stabbing, of another baby. All of the scientific evidence showed that she could not have had this second baby. The police nevertheless, insisted on charging her and, after the charges were dropped, continued to insist that she had given birth to twins conceived of two different men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908634375
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	03/02/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Nell McCafferty is an Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner and feminist

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Joanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the murder, by stabbing, of another baby. All of the scientific evidence showed that she could not have had this second baby. The police nevertheless, insisted on charging her and, after the charges were dropped, continued to insist that she had given birth to twins conceived of two different men.