![]() Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.“Sad, angry … tell me to shut up and it’s, um, sad and not fair. ![]() “I got a hiding … foot on the backside of head,” Karl said. Now aged 17, Karl Colt - Martha’s third son - claimed he had “got threatened and I got bashed”. Martha’s sister Betty, who is in Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre in western Sydney, abandoned a release application on Wednesday.Įarlier this year, exclusively reported that Martha Colt had posted videos on Facebook of her sons claiming they had been abused after being taken into care six years ago. Ms Colt swallowed, bowed her head briefly and looked at her hands. Ms Viney said there was a risk Ms Colt “could abscond to seek solace with other family in another state”, and refused her bail. If released, she would have to rely on Centrelink welfare payments for her rent, and intended returning to Griffith to live.ĭPP prosecutor Katharine Jeffreys told Ms Viney that a previously unsuitable address had not been the only reason Martha Colt had been refused bail in April. The generator next to a shed on the Colt incest property at a remote campsite in southern New South Wales, where tri-generational incest was found. The court heard that when she was arrested in Griffith with brother Charlie, two of her sons who were possible witnesses, were living in the rented house. She had also fallen from an upper prison bunk and suffered soft tissue damage, and was finding her first time in custody “overwhelming”. Only Betty Colt’s daughter Raylene, who faces a single charge of perjury, has been released on bail.Īt Martha Colt’s second bail application on Wednesday, Magistrate Alison Viney heard that the accused had high blood pressure and had suffered chest pains and migraines in prison. In April, detectives arrested them in Griffith, in the Riverlands region of South Australia and in Western Australia’s Avon Valley. The children had facial deformities associated with interbreeding, walked in a shuffling manner, could not speak intelligibly and had cognitive impairment.Īfter the removal of Martha’s five children, five of family matriarch Betty’s and the other Colt adults scattered interstate. Martha and brother Charlie shared the same bed in one of two tents inside a large shed which had a refrigerator with rotten vegetables and hazardous wires hooked up to a generator. Her lawyer said she had health problems including injuries from falling in her prison cell. Martha Colt, 38, is currently incarcerated in Dillwynia Women’s prison in far western Sydney. NSW Police child protection squad detectives swooped on April 15 this year, arresting eight members of the Colt incest family in raids across three states. It also heard that police are seeking further DNA samples from members of the Colt family before charges laid against them can proceed. Martha was living with her brother Charlie Colt - who she had once slept openly with in a “marital bed” on the Colt incest family farm - when arrested in April.įour of Martha Colt’s children, aged between 11 and 20, are a result of sexual relationships with a sibling or parent.Ĭentral Local Court heard on Wednesday that Martha Colt - a court appointed pseudonym to protect the identity of child victims - and brother Charlie Colt were living in the NSW town of Griffith in April. ![]() ![]() MARTHA Colt, the most depraved member of the Colt incest family whose five children resulted from incestuous relationships, was found living with her brother, a court has heard.
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