William Tyrrell foster mother files: How she fought war to keep truth about missing toddler secret

William Tyrrell’s foster mother fought to keep secret the truth about the missing toddler, arguing that revealing he was a foster child would intensify publicity and force her family into hiding.

The now 57-year-old was part of the court battle waged to keep a veil of secrecy over William’s foster status in the years after he vanished without trace. 

Daily Mail Australia has obtained an affidavit written by the foster mother two years after William vanished from her mother’s house in the NSW Mid North Coast town of Kendall on September 12, 2014.

In the document designed to keep William’s foster care past under wraps, the foster mother claimed disclosure ‘will lead to intense interest from the public and a much larger number of people will learn William was in foster care’.

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