William Tyrrell’s biological mother is pregnant with another child – and has also hinted she may be getting married.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, welcomed a child with her latest partner in December 2022.
A series of photos she posted on Facebook suggests they are now having a second.
She posted a photo collage on one of her Facebook accounts featuring images of herself with her partner and their baby daughter.
In the images, she appeared to be wearing an engagement ring on her left hand. She also looked to be holding a positive pregnancy test.
More recent photo collages show her clearly pregnant.
The woman’s biological son William Tyrrell, who vanished without trace while in the care of his foster parents at Kendall on the NSW mid-north coast in September 2014, would have been due to celebrate his 13th birthday in June this year.
William Tyrrell’s birth mother (above) appears to be pregnant with her sixth child, almost ten years after her first son went missing without a trace while in foster care
William (left) went missing in 2014 while in the care of his foster parents and the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS), leaving his birth mother traumatised. (Pictured right: William’s birth mother wearing what appears to be an engagement ring)
In the hours following William’s disappearance, the toddler’s birth mother endured a police search of her home in Blacktown, western Sydney, which she shared with her then partner, William’s biological father.
In the years after William vanished, as he became ‘s highest-profile missing child case, his biological mother faced run-ins with police and unstable personal relationships.
In 2018, she revealed her heartbreak and agony over the mystery of her missing child in a TV interview, in which she admitted she felt ‘like the worst mum in the world’ after the 2014 disappearance, adding that whoever took William ‘needs a bullet’.
William was removed from his biological mother and father at just seven months, in early 2012.
At the inquest into William’s disappearance in 2019, the birth mother gave evidence that she had ‘not given up on’ getting William back after he was taken into the care of the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) and given to foster parents.
By that time, she had split from William’s biological father, who told the inquest that FACS had ‘f**ked up… [in its] duty of care to keep him safe until he was 18’.
William’s birth mother moved on to another relationship before meeting her current partner and giving birth to their daughter, now aged 13 months.
If she gets married to this man – either before or after the birth of their second child – it is believed it will be William’s mother’s first wedding.
Both she and William’s biological father have described the trauma of his case.
The parents were blameless in what came to be a suspected abduction by police, who have more recently focused on William’s foster mother as an alleged person of interest.
The woman (pictured outside court several years ago) appears to now be living a stable and happy life following the trauma of William’s disappearance after he was taken from her
William Tyrrell (pictured with his birth parents and older sister) was taken from their care and placed with foster parents before he disappeared
As the 10-year anniversary of William’s disappearance approaches, friends of his birth mother have commented on Facebook their best wishes for her fresh start in life.
William’s foster mother, who also cannot be named for legal reasons, has repeatedly denied any involvement in the boy’s disappearance.
When he vanished, his status as a foster child was initially obscured by NSW legislation which prohibits the publicity of the out-of-home care status of children.
The NSW Supreme Court ruled it was appropriate that William’s foster status be made public, after children’s advocate Allanna Smith won a legal battle against FACS.
In making his decision, Justice Paul Brereton raised ‘the tragic probability that [William] is no longer alive’.