The Queensland woman allegedly raised thousands of dollars by chronicling her child's supposed illness online.

An Australian influencer has been charged with poisoning her baby girl to elicit donations and boost online followers.

The Queensland woman claimed she was chronicling her child’s battle with a terminal illness on social media, but detectives allege she was drugging the one-year-old and then filming her in “immense distress and pain”.

Doctors had raised the alarm in October, when the baby was admitted to hospital suffering a serious medical episode.

After months of investigation, the 34-year-old woman was charged with torture, administering poison, making child exploitation material and fraud.

  • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    I deeply disagree. I think most healthy parents would probably die for their kids. There’s no price that would make me consider poisoning a baby. Ultimately, the payoff was A$60k which is about $37k USD — not exactly a life changing amount.

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      She probably expected to get much more than $60k. But anyway a sociopath would totally poison a baby for $0.