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.com
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    To be clear, I’m not saying she should go free! She’s clearly a danger to others. I just don’t see any value in further punishment — if anything, she needs therapy and rehabilitation, if that’s even possible.

    If you meant evil in a spiritual sense, then I’d be very curious to hear your thoughts on why classifying people or actions as evil is necessary.

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      She hasn’t received any bloody punishment yet. She hasn’t even gone to court.