Friday, January 17, 2025 - A TikTok influencer was arrested for allegedly poisoning and torturing her baby daughter to receive donations and boost online followers.
Footage shows the 34-year-old Australian mum crying as cops
put handcuffs on her before bundling the social media personality into
a police car.
The Queensland woman has been charged with child
exploitation after "administering poison with intent to harm".
She is also accused of defrauding donors of £30,000
via GoFundMe.
The woman is said to have given her child unauthorised
prescription and pharmacy medicines to make her sick, according to the cops.
She had reportedly been recording her child's battle with a
terminal illness on social media
However, authorities allege that she was instead drugging
her one-year-old baby and then filming her while she was in "immense
distress and pain".
She was first reported by the medical staff during one of
the child’s hospital stays in October last year after experiencing "severe
emotional and physical distress and harm".
Cops said in a statement: "The woman carefully
concealed her continued efforts to administer the unauthorised medicines until
the matter was detected and reported to police by medical staff from a hospital
in Brisbane’s south while the child was admitted.
“While the child was being subject to immense distress and
pain, it is alleged the woman filmed and posted videos of the child.”
They allege the woman ignored medical advice and "went
to lengths to obtain unauthorised medicines", which included old
medications prescribed to another person in the home.
The woman then took photos and videos of her child to
"entice monetary donations and online followers".
Tests for unauthorised medicines in the child's system returned a positive result later in January, the police said.
The mum is now under police custody and is expected to
appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday, Jan. 17.
Cops claim the child would have become "gravely
ill" and "could have died" if she had stayed in the accused's
care.
Queensland Police Inspector Paul Dalton said: "[There
are] no words for how repulsive offences of this nature are.
“We will do everything in our power to remove that
child from harm’s way and hold any offender to account.
"There is no excuse for harming a child, especially not
a one-year-old infant who is reliant on others for care and survival."
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