{"id":402909,"date":"2026-04-29T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402909\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:45:10","slug":"mother-who-faked-sons-eye-cancer-diagnosis-to-raise-money-sentenced-to-over-four-years-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402909\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother who faked son&#8217;s eye cancer diagnosis to raise money sentenced to over four years&#8217; jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jordanna Schriever, ABC<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4MHNLST_copyright_image_252440\" width=\"1050\" height=\"695\" alt=\"30717816 - hand in jail\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>A mother who faked her six-year-old son&#8217;s cancer diagnosis to raise thousands of dollars has been jailed for more than four years for the &#8220;cruel, calculated&#8221; and &#8220;manipulative&#8221; crime.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old woman, from Adelaide&#8217;s western suburbs, previously pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in acts likely to cause harm and 10 counts of deception, after she shaved and bandaged her son&#8217;s head so it appeared he had eye cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In sentencing, District Court Judge Geraldine Davison said that while the woman had sought to blame her offending on financial troubles, her crimes were a sophisticated &#8220;attention-seeking device&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She jailed the mother for four years and three months and set a non-parole period of two years and four months, making her eligible to apply for parole in April 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Outside court, the woman&#8217;s husband said no sentence could justify what she had done.<\/p>\n<p>-ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jordanna Schriever, ABC Photo: 123RF A mother who faked her six-year-old son&#8217;s cancer diagnosis to raise thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-402909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}