Did a Dingo really eat a baby?
Yes, It is true that a dingo really did eat a baby. There are also numerous accounts of dingoes attacking children, particularly in K’gari, Queensland and Karijini National Park.
This is an infamous case about a woman named Lindy Chamberlain who lost her baby. In August 1980, as per the National Museum of Australia, at a campsite in Uluru, she claimed that she found a dingo leaving the tent of her child. Her baby named Azaria and after various inquiries and legal proceedings, the Chamberlains were found guilty of murder, despite support from the other campers and Indigenous trackers.
However, in 1986 police searching for the body of British tourist David Brett in Uluru came upon Azaria’s missing matinee jacket in an area with many dingo lairs. The Chamberlains were subsequently released.
A certificate from Coroner Elizabeth Morris found that the baby’s death did results from her “being attacked and taken by a dingo.”
In another story incident, in 2001, dingoes attacked two boys, killing one and injuring another, as per reports from Daily Mail.