An Australian woman is accused of poisoning a 1-year-old girl and posting fundraising videos, police say

A woman in Australia has been arrested on charges that she gave a 1-year-old girl a variety of medications to make her sick over several months, then posted videos of the infant online to garner sympathy and donations, local police said.

The girl was exposed to “severe distress and pain” for more than two months, between August and October of last year. Queensland Police Service He said in a press release Thursday. The relationship between the 34-year-old woman, who police did not identify, and the girl was not immediately clear.

Police said the woman “made every effort to obtain” unauthorized medications, including “old medications” for someone else in her home, and that she “carefully concealed” her efforts to give the child the medication, including while he was inside a hospital in Brisbane. Where the child was admitted to the hospital.

Hospital staff eventually figured out what the woman was doing and reported her to police last October, authorities said. On January 7, the child tested positive for taking unapproved medications, police said.

According to For BBC NewsDetective Inspector Paul Dalton told reporters that the woman had raised 60,000 Australian dollars, the equivalent of about $37,000, through GoFundMe donations.

She was arrested on Thursday at her home in Morningside, a suburb of Brisbane, on five counts of administering poison with intent to injure, three counts of preparing to commit crimes with dangerous objects, one count of torture, making child exploitation materials and fraud. The police said.

Per BBC News, Dalton told reporters that the child is now “safe and well,” and no one else has been charged in the alleged assault.