<P> "A dingo ate my baby" is a phrase attributed to Lindy Chamberlain - Creighton and also to Meryl Streep's depiction of Chamberlain in the movie A Cry in the Dark (1988)--also known as Evil Angels--about the death of Azaria Chamberlain, an Australian baby girl who died in 1980 at Uluru in the Northern Territory . The Chamberlain family had been holidaying at Uluru when their daughter was taken from their tent by a dingo . The authorities disbelieved the family's story about a dingo, and prosecuted and won convictions against Lindy Chamberlain for murder and against her then - husband Michael Chamberlain as an accessory after the fact . Ultimately, the courts found both parents innocent after being sent to court 3 different times, and the coroner found Azaria's death was "the result of being attacked and taken by a dingo". </P> <P> The phrase "A dingo ate my baby" was not actually used by Chamberlain, nor is it used in the film . Chamberlain is reported to have called out to her husband, "a dingo took my baby", or either "That dog's got my baby" or "My God, My God, a dingo has got my baby ." In the film, Streep's character, upon discovering her daughter missing, cries out, "The dingo took my baby!" </P>

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