It's a glimpse into a society that preferred to turn a blind eye to the fate of its most vulnerable members, only a century ago. Annie Cossins pieces together a dramatic and tragic tale with larger than life characters: theatrical Sarah Makin her smooth-talking husband, John her disloyal daughter, Clarice diligent Constable James Joyce, with curious domestic arrangements of his own and a network of baby farmers stretching across the city. The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby. This resulted in the most infamous trial in Australian legal history, and exposed a shocking underworld of desperate mothers, drugged and starving babies, and a black market in the sale and murder of children. Buy a cheap copy of The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of. Criminality, examining the laws associated with infanticide as a form of. Annie Cossins is the author of The Baby Farmers (3.43 avg rating, 183 ratings, 32 reviews, published 2013), Female Criminality (3.00 avg rating, 3 rating. In the weeks that followed, 12 more babies were found buried in the backyards of other houses in which the Makins had lived. Annie Cossins presents a social analysis of baby farmers in her publication Female. Annie Cossins concludes that Patmore lauded the selfless devotion and. In October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was found buried in the backyard of Sarah and John Makin, two wretchedly poor baby farmers in inner Sydney. 8 - Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclairs Life and Death. The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman a fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia
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