Bodzsar had previously pleaded guilty to one charge of conduct likely to cause harm to a child and 10 counts of deception on October 16, 2025.
She has been held in custody since she was arrested in December 2024, after she was accused of administering fake medicine to her son while claiming he had cancer and raising thousands of dollars in donations from the public.
The ABC reported Bodzsar uploaded a post to Facebook in November 2024 titled “A letter to my boy”, writing: “Time is passing day and night with screams of angst when taking your medicine, and a body full of heat I can not explain to you.
“The confusion is written all over your little face.
“A mother’s love burns from the inside out something you will never see only feel.
“I will take the pain away from you as much as I can so you do not have to feel it.
“I love you with all my heart my precious angel.”
The boy, who is not named, had fallen from a trampoline two months before the Facebook post and hurt his eye, but was cleared by a doctor.
However, she told her husband, Ben Miller, their son had cancer. She told him the doctor had discovered cancer in his eye and required radiotherapy.
The judge said the child was abused during this time when he was forced to take fake medication “even when he clearly did not want to”.
“It is a form of child maltreatment and child abuse.”
After Bodzsar was sentenced, the husband told reporters, “no sentence will ever justify what was done to my children”.
Miller was initially arrested at the same time as Bodzsar.
Judge Davison told Bodzsar: “Your crimes have resulted in him losing his job, his career, and being unable to get work because he was on home detention, and no contact with his children for almost seven months.”
Bodzsar was sentenced to four years and three months in prison, with a non-parole period of two years and four months.
