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Line 1: − '''Azaria Chamberlain''' was the nearly-ten-week-old daughter of [[Seventh Day Adventist]] pastor [[Michael Chamberlain]] and his wife [[Lindy Chamberlain]] who was taken and killed by a [[dingo]] at [[Ayers Rock]] in central [[Australia]].+ − + − == Missing == − Azaria Chamberlain was asleep in the family tent at the Ayers Rock camping ground on 17th August 1980, with her older brother Reagan, 4, when a dingo entered the tent and took Azaria. − Her parents and other brother, Aiden, 6, were around a campfire nearby, with other campers. − − Lindy Chamberlain, hearing a cry from her baby, returned to the tent just in time to see what appeared in the dark to be a dingo leaving the tent, and, investigating, found her baby gone. − − A search proved fruitless, and police became suspicious of the circumstances. − Public opinions on the case were strong, and there was a widespread rumour that the name [[Azariah|Azaria]] meant "Sacrifice in the wilderness". − The name actually means "whom Jehovah helps". − However, a [[coroner|coronial]] inquest found that a dingo had, in fact, taken Azaria, and that her body had been disposed of by a person or persons unknown. − The coroner also pointed out that the name does not mean and has never meant "Sacrifice in the wilderness". − − == Parents charged and convicted == − − However, the [[Northern Territory]] government had the findings of the coronial inquest quashed, and a second inquest ordered. − Whereas the first inquest had concentrated on the dingo, the second concentrated on allegations of blood in the Chamberlain car. − As a result of the second inquest, Lindy Chamberlain was charged with the murder of Azaria, and Michael Chamberlain with being an accessory after the fact. − The subsequent court case in front of a [[jury]] found both parents guilty as charged. Whilst Michael Chamberlain was given a suspended sentence to allow him to raise his remaining children, Lindy Chamberlain was sentenced to life with hard labour. − − == Freed == − − Five and a half years after her disappearance, a matinee jacket matching the description of the one that Lindy Chamberlain said her daughter was wearing when she disappeared, was found at the base of Ayers rock. − This evidence showed that Lindy had been telling the truth, and she was released from prison pending further investigation. − A further trial quashed all convictions against Michael and Lindy Chamberlain. − Lindy Chamberlain subsequently received AU$1.3 million compensation for wrongful imprisonment. − − == Film == − − The case has been put to film a number of times, including the following: − * ''Who Killed Baby Azaria?'' was made for TV in 1983, when Lindy Chamberlain was still in jail, and reportedly presumes that she was guilty. − * ''Evil Angels'', known as ''A Cry in the Dark'' outside Australia, was made in 1988, directed by [[Fred Schepisi]], and starred [[Meryl Streep]] and [[Sam Neill]] as Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. − * ''Through My Eyes'' is a two-part TV mini series made in 2004. − − == Sources == − * Linder, Douglas, [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/chamberlain/chamberlainhome.html The Lindy Chamberlain Trial], 2005. − * Steel, Fiona, [http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/chamberlain1/1.html A Cry in the Night] − * Hogg, Russell, [http://law.anu.edu.au/highcourt_project/Chamberlain%20Case%20rtf.rtf Chamberlain Case (1984)] − − == External links == − * [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086580/ Who Killed Baby Azaria?] on the Internet Movie Database. − * [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094924/ Evil Angels] on the Internet Movie Database. − * [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0409633/ Through My Eyes] on the Internet Movie Database. − − {{DEFAULTSORT:Chamberlain, Azaria}} − − [[Category:Australia]]
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AT least she wasn't a fundamentalist wackjob....
CONSERVAPEDIA SUCKS!