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.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77·
    11 hours ago

    Kinda sounds like Munchhausens by proxy, but it’s also very possible she’s just a disturbingly shitty human being in a normal way. Normal being a relative term.

    • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      181·
      10 hours ago

      I have a hard time assigning guilt to people who commit truly heinous crimes like this. Like, your brain is obviously completely fucked if you’re poisoning your baby for internet points.

        • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          176·
          9 hours ago

          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.

          • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            9 hours ago

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

        • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          81·
          5 minutes 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.