Australian influencer charged with poisoning baby for money

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

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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.

"[There are] no words for how repulsive offences of this nature are," Queensland Police Det Insp Paul Dalton told reporters on Thursday.

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