AW v R [2026] NSWCCA 134

AW v R [2026] NSWCCA 134 concerns a sentence appeal by a mother who injected her medically vulnerable infant daughter with insulin, causing life-threatening hypoglycaemia. The key issues were whether her later refusal to deal with two paediatricians aggravated the offence, and how her Factitious Disorder, traumatic history and related circumstances affected objective seriousness and moral culpability. The Court found no evidentiary basis to treat the later conduct as aggravating, rejected further reduction of objective seriousness to avoid double counting, and held that her moral culpability was significantly reduced. The appeal was allowed and AW was resentenced to one year and ten months’ imprisonment, with an eleven-month non-parole period.