Doctor pleads guilty to trying to kill severely disabled girl
A doctor has pleaded guilty to his part in a plan to kill a severely disabled six-year-old girl via a drug overdose.
Pieter Theunis Austin, 47, pleaded guilty to attempting to unlawfully kill the girl in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court in Perth on Wednesday.
Dr Austin was remanded in custody to face a sentencing hearing in the Supreme Court on December 14.
The girl’s mother, who cannot be named, was also charged with the same offence, but she previously pleaded not guilty and is due back in court in November.
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READ NOWPolice allege the 40-year-old woman went to an Albany medical clinic on January 17 and obtained a prescription for a deadly drug.
The girl survived after a family member took her to hospital.
Originally published as Doctor pleads guilty to trying to kill severely disabled girl
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