A mother who faked her six-year-old son's cancer diagnosis has pleaded guilty to charges linked to the deception.

The 45-year-old woman admitted 11 charges when she appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court today.

The woman, from the western suburb of West Lakes, was arrested last December and accused of faking her son's cancer to secure $60,000 in donations from the community.

Prosecutors had alleged that she had been requesting donations through an online fundraising page and the child's school, after putting her son in a wheelchair with bandages to imitate radiotherapy treatment.

In May, all charges against the woman's husband were dropped and her charges were amended to one count of criminal neglect, 56 counts of deception to obtain a benefit and 14 counts of dishonestly dealing

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