William Tyrrell’s biological mother has given birth to a little girl, and her name is a nod to her missing son.
The 35-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is trying to start afresh and leave behind her troubled past and the trauma of her boy’s disappearance and presumed death.
The mother gave birth to her new baby just before Christmas last year, some eight years after her eldest son disappeared.
The child’s name cannot be printed for legal reasons.
The new baby, who is now about six months old, was born to the stay-at-home mum, from Sydney’s north-west, more than a decade after she gave birth to William on her 23rd birthday in June 2011.
Friends described the baby girl as ‘absolutely precious’.
William, who vanished without trace while in the care of his foster parents at Kendall on the NSW mid-north coast in September 2014, would have celebrated his 12th birthday two weeks ago, just as his mum turned 35.
In the hours following William’s disappearance, the toddler’s birth mother endured a police search of her home in Blacktown, western Sydney, which she shared with her then partner, William’s biological father.
William Tyrrell’s birth mother has welcomed a baby daughter and given her a name which is a nod to he missing son who vanished nine years ago while in foster care
The 35-year-old’ new baby girl has a name which is a nod to the infant’s missing older brother
The parents were blameless in what came to be a suspected abduction by police, who have more recently focused on William’s foster mother as a person of interest and recommended that she be charged with perverting the course of justice and interfering with a corpse.
The foster mum has been under intense scrutiny from NSW Police over the past 12 months, some nine years after William went missing.
But William’s birth mother has revealed her heartbreak and agony over the mystery of her missing child, saying in 2016 ‘I felt like I was the worst mum in the world’ when William vanished.
The mother gave birth to her new baby just before Christmas last year, some eight years after her eldest son disappeared.
The new baby (above after her birth last December) )is now six months old
The biological mother of William Tyrrell (pictured, above in 2012) has given birth to a new baby eight years after their missing big brother vanished without a trace
Now, a decade since William’s disappearance became Australia’s most high profile missing child case, friends of his birth mother hope the birth of a new child will mark a fresh start.
Her baby daughter arrived after a year in which she faced charges relating to a failed relationship.
A man took out an AVO against William’s mother after she assaulted him at a bus stop last September.
Late last month, in a bombshell development in William’s case, detectives from the NSW Police Strike Force Rosann referred a brief of evidence about William’s foster mother to the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.
The detectives, who believe William likely died by accident at his foster grandmother’s Kendall house on September 12, 2014, prepared a brief in which they claim there is enough evidence to charge William’s foster mother over the toddler’s disappearance.
William was removed from his biological mother and father at just seven months, in early 2012.
Above is the last known photo taken of William Tyrrell on his foster grandmother’s verandah in September, 2014
By April 2012, parental responsibility for William was placed in the hands of the then Family And Community Services (FACS) minister until William turned 18.
The couple who fostered William had become carers in the NSW fostering system overseen by FACS in March 2012.
Final orders for William being in the care of the FACS (since absorbed into the Department of Justice & Communities NSW) were made in 2013.
William lived with his older sister in a comfortable house owned by the foster parents, both well-educated professionals in their 50s, on Sydney’s leafy north shore.
In a 2016 interview with then Task Force Rosann commander Gary Jubelin, the foster father said William was ‘a flamboyant little boy … full of beans’ but ‘wary of strangers’.
William, in his fireman’s hat, is seen with with his biological family at a picnic not very long before he disappeared from his foster parents’ care at Kendall, NSW
‘He’d cower behind you, so … we taught him ‘stranger danger’. He’d always stay well within eyesight. He wanted to see where you were.
‘He’d certainly be checking over his shoulder just to make sure that you were there or you weren’t far away.’
William was also a ‘non-stop’ child with discipline problems, such as biting other children at child care.
The foster mother said William was a ‘very unsettled’ child to care for, and although he bonded with his foster father, his ‘behavioural issues’ with her continued for some time.
When he vanished, his status as a foster child was initially obscured by NSW legislation which prohibits the publicity of the out-of-home care status of children.
The identities of the foster parents can also not be publicly revealed.
William’s biological father (above) told an inquest that child care authorities had failed in their ‘duty of care to keep William safe until he was 18’
William’s foster mother, 57 (right) is the subject of a police brief of evidence to the NSW DPP recommending she be charged with interfering with a corpse and perverting the course of justice
In 2016, William’s biological mother was canvassed about her views on revealing William’s past as a fostered child and she did not oppose publication of the fact that William ‘was in foster care at the time of his disappearance’.
The NSW Supreme Court ruled it was appropriate that William’s foster status be made public, after children’s advocate Allanna Smith won a legal battle against FACS.
William’s biological parents testified at a NSW Coroner’s inquest into William’s disappearance in 2019.
William’s biological father revealed his anguish about the department’s supposed neglect in protecting his son.
‘Authorities f***ed up. The minister had a duty of care to keep William safe until he was 18. That was not the case at all,’ he said.
William’s biological mother spoke out about William during a intensity search for the three-year-old’s remains in late 2021 at the mid north coast property of the child’s foster grandmother.
‘It’s been years actually. Can you imagine what I’ve been through?’ William’s mother said.
‘I’m a mess, how do you think I’m doing?’
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