Australia’s most notorious female serial killer has defended her decision to continue babysitting decades after murdering children in her care, as new revelations reignite anger and fear in the NSW community.
Helen Moore, convicted in 1980 of smothering three infants and attempting to kill two others, has spoken publicly after it was revealed she allegedly allowed neighbours’ children to stay at her home without disclosing her past.
“Anything to do with children now is irrelevant. All my supervision is complete,” she told the Daily Mail.
“It shouldn’t concern anybody what I do. All this was 45 years ago. Ancient history.
“And because I’m the one with the criminal record, it’s always the easiest path to believe anyone else but me.”
Moore was jailed at 18 after a series of deaths in Sydney’s south-west that were initially blamed on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). She eventually confessed and received three life sentences, but was released in 1993 after serving just 13 years and nine months.
Earlier reports revealed the now-63-year-old had been living under the name Helen Anderson on the NSW Central Coast and had allegedly been babysitting for families who were unaware of her history.
One former neighbour said Moore regularly cared for her children and grandchildren and was treated like family.
The renewed scrutiny follows public comments from Moore’s younger brother, Craig Moorley, who has warned that his sister should never be around children again.
“People don’t know what she did and they deserve to because she is evil,” he said.
“She is Australia’s worst female serial killer and she is just going about her life having kids at her house for sleepovers.”
Moore has rejected those claims, accusing her brother of a long-running vendetta.
“He has always disliked me,” she said. “What I wonder is why it has taken him 32 years to bring all this up? Why didn’t he do this when I was first released? He has issues with me and this proves it.”
She told the publication she was mentally unstable at the time of the killings and has spent decades trying to rebuild her life.
“I was young. I was very mentally unstable due to the death of Andrew,” she said, referring to her 14-month-old stepbrother whose 1979 death was ruled SIDS.
“I have worked damn hard for 45 years to be a good person.
“I don’t even have a speeding ticket or a parking fine. My record since release should speak for itself but no one cares.”
Moorley has long believed Andrew was Moore’s first victim and is calling for the case to be reopened.
“I was never interviewed properly,” he said.
“I was just a kid and I thought I had done it wrong and that is why he died.”
Court documents show Moore’s later victims included a 16-month-old relative and a two-year-old girl, both smothered while in her care. Two boys survived separate attacks but one was left permanently blind and unable to walk, dying years later from those injuries.
Authorities only intervened after Moore attacked a seven-year-old relative, strangling him and throwing his body down stairs before calmly calling police.
Despite that history, Moore insists she has paid her debt to society.
“I didn’t sentence myself,” she said. “A real-life judge sentenced me and he knew all the facts of the case.”
The latest exposure has left her fearing for her safety.
“People are hurting when this happens,” she said.
“I’m sorry it all happened but I can’t undo it. I have to live with it forever.
“Death threats are already out there. The threats are so bad I can’t leave the house.”
Moorley said he will continue speaking out.
“If she just left jail and lived her life then that would be that, but she is putting herself around children,” he said.
“She may not want to tell them but I will because I lived it and I have seen what she is capable of.”
He has also made allegations of historic abuse against his sister, which NSW Police confirmed are under investigation.
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