MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian state government’s decision to pay 2 million Australian dollars ($1.3 million) compensation to a woman who spent 20 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing her four children was condemned by her lawyer Thursday as “profoundly unjust.”

New South Wales Attorney-General Michael Daley said Thursday that Kathleen Folbigg’s lawyers had been told the sum the 58-year-old would be paid more than two years after she was released from prison.

Daley did not make the figure public, but Folbigg’s supporters confirmed the sum.

“The decision follows thorough and extensive consideration of the materials and issues raised in Ms. Folbigg’s application (for compensation) and provided by her legal representatives,” Daley said in a statement. The gover

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