Australian influencer charged with poisoning baby for money
Australian influencer charged with poisoning baby for money
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.
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.
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.
Do not make the mistake of denying clear evil when you see it
It's what money and power does to a person
Munchausen Syndrome by Internet Proxy
That's simultaneously very clever and extremely disturbing