NATION Tyrrell secrecy cleared
THE suppressed identity of William Tyrrell’s biological mother has been revealed after the Supreme Court found the boy was likely dead.
Mother Karlie Tyrrell has been unable to talk publicly about the apparent abduction of her child for years because of child protection laws which prohibit identifying a child in foster care.
Ms Tyrrell has flooded Facebook with a series of grieving posts and photos since William’s 2012.
In one post, the mother uploaded a picture of herself pregnant with the young boy while the agonising search was still taking place.
William would have turned six years old in June.
Hoping desperately that he would be found, Ms Tyrrell nevertheless was unable to go public with appeals to find her missing child.
There’s no suggestion that either William’s biological or foster families were involved in disappearance in his disappearance or have any knowledge of his whereabouts.
Police have vowed to continue looking for William even though a court has ruled there was a “tragic probability that he is dead”.
A police spokesman said Homicide Squad’s Strike Force Rosann still had “numerous lines of inquiry” to follow before abandoning the search for William, who went missing from his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall, on the NSW mid- north coast, on September 12, 2014.
“The investigation into the disappearance of William Tyrrell is very much ongoing,” the spokesman said.
“It is important to note that at the time of his disappearance, William was living in a loving home and was well cared for – there is no indication his family status played any part in his disappearance.”
It can also be revealed that earlier this year, a Supreme Court judge said “tragically” the probability was that the boy was “no longer alive” as the investigation was now being conducted as a homicide.
A NSW Supreme Court judge this week permitted the publication of the fact that William was in foster care at the time of his disappearance.
The court also ruled that the public had the right to question the out- of- home care system in which William went missing to ensure “accountability”.