William Tyrrell’s mother’s new baby girl is given a name that is a touching tribute to missing boy

William Tyrrell’s biological mother gave birth to a little girl and her name is a nod to her missing son.

The 35-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is trying to start over and leave behind her troubled past and the trauma of her son’s disappearance and presumed death.

The mother gave birth to her new baby just before Christmas last year, some eight years after her oldest son disappeared.

The child’s name cannot be printed for legal reasons.

The new baby, who is now about six months old, was born to the stay-at-home mom, from north-west Sydney, more than a decade after she gave birth to William on her 23rd birthday in June 2011.

Friends described the baby girl as “absolutely precious.”

William, who disappeared without a trace in September 2014 while in the care of his foster parents in Kendall on the NSW north coast, is said to have celebrated his 12th birthday two weeks ago, just as his mother turned 35.

In the hours following William’s disappearance, the toddler’s biological mother withstood a police search of her home in Blacktown, western Sydney, which she shared with her then-partner, William’s biological father.

The parents were beyond reproach in what became a suspected kidnapping by the police, who more recently have targeted William’s foster mother as a person of interest and recommended she be charged with perverting the course of justice and disturbing a corpse.

The foster mother has been under intense investigation by NSW Police for the past 12 months, some nine years after William went missing.

But William’s birth mother has revealed her heartbreak and pain over the mystery of her missing child, saying in 2016, “I felt like I was the worst mother in the world” when William disappeared.

Now, a decade after William’s disappearance became Australia’s most high-profile case, friends of his birth mother hope the birth of a new child will mean a fresh start.

Her baby daughter arrived after a year of being accused of a failed relationship.

A man pulled out an AVO against William’s mother after she assaulted him at a bus stop last September.

Late last month, in an explosive development in William’s case, detectives from the NSW Police Strike Force Rosann referred a piece of evidence about William’s foster mother to the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.

The detectives, believing William likely died accidentally at his foster grandmother’s Kendall home on September 12, 2014, have drafted a letter claiming there is enough evidence to charge William’s foster mother with the toddler’s disappearance.

In early 2012, William was taken away from his biological father and mother in just seven months.

In April 2012, parental responsibility for William was transferred to the then Minister of Family And Community Services (FACS) until William turned 18.

The couple who fostered William had become caretakers in March 2012 in the NSW foster system overseen by FACS.

In 2013, the last orders were given that William was in the care of the FACS (since incorporated into the Department of Justice & Communities NSW).

William lived with his older sister in a comfortable home owned by the foster parents, both well-educated professionals in their fifties, on Sydney’s leafy north shore.

In a 2016 interview with then-Task Force Rosann commander Gary Jubelin, the foster father said William was “a flamboyant little boy … full of beans” but “wary of strangers.”

“He’d cower behind you, so… we taught him ‘Stranger Danger’.” He would always be in good sight. He wanted to see where you were.

“He’d definitely look over his shoulder to make sure you were there or you weren’t far away.”

William was also a “non-stop” child with discipline issues, such as biting other children at daycare.

The foster mother said William was a “very troubled” child to look after, and although he bonded with his foster father, his “behavioral problems” with her continued for some time.

When he disappeared, his status as a foster child was initially obscured by NSW legislation prohibiting publicity about children’s home care status.

The identity of the foster parents may also not be made public.

In 2016, William’s birth mother was questioned about her views on revealing William’s past as a foster child and she did not resist publication of the fact that William was “in foster care at the time of his disappearance.”

The NSW Supreme Court ruled that it was appropriate for William’s foster status to be made public, after child advocate Allanna Smith won a legal battle against FACS.

William’s birth parents testified at a NSW Coroner’s inquest into William’s 2019 disappearance.

William’s biological father revealed his anguish over the department’s alleged negligence in protecting his son.

“Authorities screwed up. The minister had a duty of care to keep William safe until he was 18. That was not the case at all,” he said.

William’s biological mother spoke out about William during an intensive search for the three-year-old’s remains in late 2021 on the north shore property of the child’s foster grandmother.

“It’s been years, actually. Can you imagine what I’ve been through?’ William’s mother said.

“I am a mess, how do you think I am?”