Like Martha, her older sisters Betty and Rhonda and Betty’s daughter Raylene, were also charged with lying about who was the father of her children.ĭNA testing would reveal all four women had children whose fathers were the mothers’ own father or brother, or a half-brother, uncle, nephew or grandfather. Petra Colt (above) was raped by her uncle who was also her half-brother, as she had been fathered by her mother Betty’s own father, Tim.Īnd at Martha’s sentencing last year, the tragedy of her life caught up in the intergenerationally inbred Colts was revealed and can now be disclosed for the first time. However, his brother Roderick was found guilty of raping his niece Petra.Īnd it emerged during his trial that Petra was also his half-sister by virtue of the fact she was the daughter of Roderick’s sister Betty and their father Tim.Īlthough all eight family members were imprisoned after their 2018 arrest, only half have subsequently received custodial sentences. One member – Charlie Colt, who originally faced 27 charges – was found not guilty on two charges and acquitted, with the balance being withdrawn. Of the original 80 charges levelled against eight Colts – including incest, child sexual abuse, indecency against a child and perjury – many were dropped. Three family members, Roderick, Martha and Derek Colt, had filed notices of intention to appeal in 2020, all of which have since expired. However, now most of those among the 38-member clan found on the filthy, unsewered plot in the hills behind Boorowa, NSW in 2012 have had their charges finalised. Suppression orders had remained on the family’s interbreeding practices and rampant sexual interactions as eight family members were before the courts. Some have low slung ears or misaligned eyes as a result of inbreeding and they look decades older than their calendar age.įew of the entire Colt clan are employed, and those who are do menial jobs like fruit picking. Many Colts – now grown into adulthood – had showed marked improvement in personal hygiene and health since the day they were taken from the “incest cult” camp in the scrub.īut they are still overshadowed by deprivations from their childhood: no education, unfamiliarity with toilets, showers or toothbrushes, shuffling gaits and unintelligible speech. Now broken apart, members of the once close-knit clan, who had few friends outside the family, appear on social media today to still be socially isolated from anyone but one another. One of Betty’s kids, Bobby, now 23, looks decades older. Three of the late Tim Colt’s daughters went to trial – and were assaulted in prison and ostracised in communities – because they have inbred children, the products of rape and sexual relations with their own father and brothers.īut growing up in an isolated family in which they were groomed and preyed upon for sex by their male relatives, the women really never had a chance. The horrific family history of a sexually voracious patriarch who fancied himself as a travelling minstrel but really was a rapist of his own daughters and granddaughter has now been put in context. It was conceded at one trial that all 13 children of Betty Colt were likely fathered by her own father. The new family tree of the Colts probably does not even truly reflect how close those relations were. The story of the clan’s history pieced together by from different trials and hearings shows the degree to which family members cohabited and conceived children with parents, siblings and other close relatives. The incest clan’s darkest secrets have emerged during court trials of eight adult members of the Colt family – a court appointed pseudonym to protect the identity of the family’s children. A new family tree of the world’s worst incest clan, the Colts of Australia, reveals the extent of the family’s depravity.
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