Amanda Knox has baby 10 years after being cleared of housemate’s murder
Ten years after she was cleared of murdering her roommate in Italy, the American about protecting her child from being “exploited” like her.
Amanda Knox has given birth to a baby girl named Eureka, she announced on Friday.
It is the first-born child to Knox, who was acquitted in the murder of former roommate Meredith Kercher by the Italian supreme court in 2015, and her husband, Christopher Robinson.
The news comes shortly after Knox revealed on her podcast, Labyrinths, that she suffered a devastating miscarriage, detailing the horror of inducing a painful birth after her baby’s death.
Back in July, she tweeted: “Season 2 of Labyrinths premieres today with episode 1 of a 5-part miniseries on infertility. In today’s episode, I bare my soul about my recent miscarriage.”
“It didn’t have a heartbeat.”
Knox, who married Christopher Robinson in 2018, added: “We thought it was a straight line from unprotected sex to baby.
“It was abdominal pain like I have not experienced before. I was shaking.”
Shortly after, in August, an audio clip at the end of the most recent episode of Labyrinths heard Knox looking at a pregnancy test, hoping for “three bars.”
Upon seeing the positive sign, she could be heard repeatedly shouting “yes.”
In an Instagram post on Friday, Knox shared a photo of her with her newborn, along with an explanation of why she plans to keep her daughter largely out of the public eye.
“Since my exoneration, I’ve struggled to reclaim my identity and protect the people I love from being exploited as tabloid content,” she wrote.
“It’s not easy, and I often feel like I’m trying to invent good choices out of bad whole cloth. I know that I cannot 100% protect my daughter from the kind of treatment I’ve suffered, but I’m doing the best I can.
“Which is why this will be the only picture of her I will ever share on social media. I’m so grateful to everyone who has wished @emceecarbon and I well on our journey to parenthood. Thank you for believing in us.”
Who is Amanda Knox?
Amanda Knox was the center of a true-crime phenomenon that became the source of an international media frenzy and, eventually, led to her acquittal at the hands of a foreign justice system.
In September 2007, Knox’s roommate, Meredith, had just moved to Perugia in central Italy where she was studying at the city’s prestigious university. She was murdered two months later.
Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, quickly became suspects in the investigation.
Knox, who is now an activist against wrongful conviction, and Sollecito, now 36, were released from prison in 2011 following an appeal against their conviction.
Rudy Guede, who was convicted in 2008 in the death of the 21-year-old British student, was the only person whose conviction was upheld.
He was released from prison at the end of last year.
Guede will fully complete his sentence in March 2022.
He was originally given 16 years but will serve the final years doing community service for local charities after his lawyer struck a deal with judges.
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Knox was acquitted of the crime after spending four years in an Italian prison.
She returned to the US after her murder conviction was overturned.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and is reproduced here with permission
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