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The Kerry Babies case was a 1984 investigation by the Garda Síochána in County Kerry, Ireland, into the killing of one newborn baby and the alleged killing of another. The mother who concealed the second baby, Joanne Hayes, was arrested and charged with the murder of the first baby, of which she was erroneously thought to be the mother. The Garda were slow to realise the mistake, whereupon the charges were dropped and a tribunal of inquiry (the Kerry Babies Tribunal) was launched. Its report was critical of the Garda conduct of the investigations, and also concluded that Hayes had precipitated the death of her baby. Hayes has disputed this finding, and no charges were pressed. The parents and killer of the first baby have never been identified. ==Events== On 14 April 1984, a newborn baby boy was found stabbed to death on White Strand beach at Cahirsiveen, County Kerry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grim discovery one of three in seven years )〕 A local woman, Joanne Hayes from Abbeydorney, who was known to have been pregnant, was arrested and she and her family confessed to the murder of the baby. However, they later withdrew their confessions and admitted instead that Hayes's baby had been born on the family farm, had died shortly after birth, and had been wrapped in a plastic bag and buried on the farm in secret. Tests showed that the baby whose body was found on the farm had the same blood type – A – as Hayes and its (married) father, Jeremiah Locke. However, the baby on the beach had blood group O. The Gardaí nevertheless insisted that Hayes had become pregnant simultaneously by two different men (through heteropaternal superfecundation) and had given birth to both children, killing the one found on the beach. Another theory put forward was that the baby's blood type had changed due to decomposition.〔Gene Kerrigan and Pat Brennan (1999). ''This Great Little Nation''. Gill & Macmillan, pp. 177-178. ISBN 0-7171-2937-3.〕 Hayes was charged with murder but the charge was thrown out by a judge, and the Kerry Babies Tribunal, headed by Mr Justice Kevin Lynch, was set up to investigate the behaviour of the gardaí in the case. Judge Lynch found that Joanne Hayes killed the baby on the farm by choking it to stop it crying, in spite of state pathologist Dr John Harbison being unable to determine the cause of death.〔 The judge rejected claims by the Hayes family that they had been assaulted by gardaí, or that the confessions were obtained through coercion. Joanne Hayes had claimed that gardai slapped, threatened, and coerced her into making a false confession, and other family members had alleged that gardai used harassment and physical intimidation to get false confessions. Gene Kerrigan commented in 2006, "In the opinion of some, the report never convincingly explained how people who were entirely innocent of any involvement whatever in stabbing a baby should make very detailed confessions that fitted into the facts of the baby found on the beach." The case was also noteworthy for having a psychiatrist admit under oath that the definition of ''sociopath'' he had used to describe Joanne Hayes in his testimony would apply to "about half the population of the country". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kerry Babies case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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