William Tyrrell’s birth mother speaks out about missing child: ‘I’ve lost him again’

In a new documentary to air on Sky News, the birth mother of one of Australia’s most high profile missing children, William Tyrrell, has spoken of losing the little boy twice.

The biological mother of three-year-old William Tyrrell says she carries the stigma of being the missing boy’s mum wherever she goes.

The woman, who has not been identified, has also described the moment William was taken out of her custody before being placed into foster care, claiming she isn’t a “bad mother”.

“When people meet me and they're like ‘Oh, that's William Tyrrell's mum’, like I carry a stigma with me wherever I go,” she said during filming for a new Sky News documentary. “That's not fun to live with.”

William Tyrrell went missing in 2014. Picture: Supplied

William vanished while playing in his foster grandmother’s backyard in Kendall on the NSW mid-north coast in September 2014.

Police now suspect the little boy, who was dressed in a Spider-Man suit, was abducted while his foster mother and sister were inside the home only metres away.

Since then, police have identified more than 600 persons of interest and offered a $1m reward, the biggest in NSW history.

William’s birth mother, who was not caring for him when he disappeared, has been interviewed for the documentary, William Tyrrell: Little Boy Lost, to air at 8pm on Sunday.

Speaking to host Peter Stefanovic, the woman described feeling as if she had lost William twice after he was removed from her care as a baby.

“They let me bath William because I was just feeding him. I bathed him, I put his pyjamas on, and then they took him,” she said.

“Handcuffed me and he was holding onto me crying, and they called an ambulance so they could check on him and I just had to sit there and hear him screaming for me, and that's how they took him.

“I've made bad choices but I'm not a bad mum.”

The NSW Homicide Squad is investigating William’s disappearance and the Coroners Court is due to hand down its findings later this year following a lengthy inquest.