After 13 hospital visits across three states, a mother who presented as a loving, worried parent now faces more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to the medical abuse of her two-year-old son.

Sarah Jayne Kelly, 30, told doctors at multiple hospitals in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia that her fourth child suffered from epilepsy and cerebral palsy over nearly a two-year period from 2021 to 2023.

On Wednesday, as she was being sentenced in Perth’s District Court, Judge Laurence Levy told the court Kelly took the child to the emergency claiming he was vomiting, had a head injury and was suffering seizures – but medical professionals could not find any evidence of the issues.

In 2022, however, the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland prescribed the boy with

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