Former sensational TV anchor Esther Arunga was on Thursday sentenced to 10 months in prison at the Brisbane Supreme.
Despite being an accessory to son's murder, the former KTN anchor will not serve a jail term. Instead, she will serve a 10 months sentence and immediately freed on parole.
That means, Arunga 38, will be released from prison and allowed to serve in the community but under certain conditions.
The sentence comes after the ex-TV anchor pleaded guilty of lying about the circumstances her 3-year-old son's death, who died in 2014.
Earlier on, she had lied to the authorities that the death of her son Sinclair was as a result of falling from the stairs in their Kallangur home. This was in an effort to protect Quincy Timberlake, her husband.
However, she later changed her version of her story and implicated her husband for punching their son several times, leading to his death.
According to her, Sinclair's father, Timberlake kept saying that there was a devil in their son's stomach, so he kept on punching him while throwing him against the wall, in a bid to get the devil out.
Arunga also told the court that she did not speak out because she was scared Timberlake would punch him since he had a huge arm.
Timberlake was then involuntarily checked into a mental institution and later charged with his son's murder.