Testing identifies Kimberly's father as either her half brother, an uncle or a grandfather.īetty's second oldest child, Tammy, now aged 27, has given birth to three daughters, one of whom died from a rare genetic disorder, and all of whom, she eventually admitted, were fathered by her closest brother, Derek, 25.īetty's younger sister, Martha Colt, 33, has five children, four of whom were fathered by her own father, Tim, or by her brother, and another who is the product of a union with a close relation. Raylene insists Kimberly's father is a man called Sven, from Sweden or Switzerland.
She contended their father was a man called Phil Walton, now dead, who was known to the family as Tim.īut genetics show one of her children, Bobby, 15, was fathered either by her father, whose name was Tim, or the brother she was sleeping with.įour more of Betty's children were fathered by a close family member.īetty's eldest child, Raylene, now aged 30, has a 13-year-old daughter, Kimberly.
Three of the daughters - Rhonda, 47, Betty, 46, and Martha, 33, and at least one of the sons, Charlie, form the elder members of the family group in the NSW bush camp. Tim and June gave birth to four daughters and two sons.
The family would then move, several times, between South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria, usually living in remote rural communities, shying away from public knowledge about the truth. June married Tim and in the 1970s the couple emigrated to Australia. Interviews with the Colts revealed the family saga began back in New Zealand, in the first half of last century when June Colt was born to parents who were brother and sister. When they finally managed to get test swabs into a laboratory, geneticists uncovered a family tree which was a nightmare of "homozygosity", when a child's parents are closely related.Įight of the Colt children have parents who were either brother and sister, mother and son or father and daughter.Ī further six have parents who were either aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, half siblings or grandparents and grandchild. While the Colt women claim outsiders had fathered their children - itinerant men, a wheat worker, a Swedish backpacker - science told otherwise. When the girls became pregnant, they would often simply miscarry on the farm, not wanting to arouse suspicions among doctors or health professionals. The children also mutilated the genitalia of animals. Ten of the children had parents who were probably father and daughter or brother and sister. Left to their own devices, brothers with sisters, uncles with nieces, fathers with daughters, they engaged in sexual activities.
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They were profoundly neglected, to the point they didn't know how to shower or use toilet paper, and were covered in sores and racked with disease. Many of them could not speak intelligibly. Years of interrelations had resulted in some of the children misshapen and intellectually impaired. Under the eye of the family matriarch, Betty Colt, who slept in the marital bed with her brother, the children copulated with each other and with adults. In fear of discovery the appalling facts about their family, the Colts had fled three other Australian states before coming to rest in rural NSW.Īnd it was here that four generations of interbreeding exploded into a life of depravity. Not only were the Colt family closely related by generations of incest. Police and welfare officers were shocked by the appalling squalor and degradation on a property where children were found to be the result of incestuous relationships. It wasn't until a squad of police and child protection officers arrived unannounced on the property one day in early June last year, that the shocking truth about the Colts would be revealed. Occasionally, when the welfare officers came visiting, the children would be forced to attend a few days of school, where they needed remedial teaching. The town people didn't even know their names. Out would pile a dirty troupe of ragtag children, some of them rail thin, wearing dirty clothes. Occasionally, the womenfolk would come into town in a four-wheel drive. The men occasionally sold firewood and two of the adult men worked as council labourers. Neighbours on one of the large properties or hobby farms occasionally heard a chainsaw, but no laughter or play. Living in a row of ramshackle tents and sheds which had no showers, toilets or running water were 40 adults and children. ON A rough block of scrub hidden in the hills above a quiet NSW country town, the Colt family had a terrible secret.
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