Influencer mum ‘hid girl under blanket to drug her unconscious’

He said some of the woman’s alleged offending had been caught on camera.

“She then moves the camera, which prosecution says is an attempt to evade detection … the footage starts with the child alert and awake,” Scott said.

“She places the child under a blanket, she’s seen fiddling with the nasogastric tube and earlier … she’s captured on that footage with a syringe that isn’t involved with the medication administered to the child.”

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Scott said about 30 to 40 minutes later the child was rendered unconscious, which was not a symptom of her genetic disorder.

The court heard the woman made admissions to a former partner that she had administered the drug.

Scott said the woman also told a professor her daughter had developed cerebral tuberculosis, a rare but serious infection of the brain – and different to her diagnosis.

“All her behaviour suggests that the [woman] does not accept that her child suffers from a treatable, manageable, non-fatal condition,” he said.

“Her actions have created a serious extra symptom … one occasion suffering a code blue, cardiac arrest requiring resuscitation.”

Scott said the alleged offences required the child to have surgeries that she would have otherwise had at a later point in life, to have benign tumours removed from the brain.

“The obtundness, the unconsciousness displayed by the [alleged] victim child, was deeply concerning to the doctors because on their initial review it could not be caused by TSC.”

Defence lawyer Mathew Cuskelly submitted his client could be released on bail, with strict reporting and residency conditions.

He read an email from the Sunshine Coast University Hospital detailing the girl’s condition last week, when she was taken to hospital.

“[The girl] has been taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital today … [she] is reported to have presented with shaking of her arms and head lasting no longer than 20 seconds at a time,” he read.

The email also said the girl had upper respiratory tract symptoms, and that the hospital was in contact with the Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Cuskelly told magistrate Stephen Courtney the girl continued to present with symptoms.

He said his client had no criminal history and argued she should be released on bail.

Courtney adjourned the case until Wednesday morning.

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