Mom tortures, kills daughter claims got autism from needle

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Maree Crabtree would tell people that her daughter Erin contracted autism from a needle and that another daughter had cancer, an ex-girlfriend of her son Jonathan Crabtree says.

Yesterday, Ms Crabtree was arrested in Brisbane and charged with murdering her son Jonathan, 26, last year, and murdering her daughter Erin in September 2012.

Both deaths were initially considered suicides, until a police investigation culminated in Ms Crabtree being charged with two counts of murder yesterday.

Police allege she forced prescription medication on them, which led to an array of health and developmental problems and eventually caused their deaths.

Detectives say she used the same method to torture her other daughter over a seven-year period.

The crimes were financially motivated, police said. Ms Crabtree is alleged to have put in fraudulent insurance claims of more than $900,000.

Her lawyer yesterday said her client would "vigorously defend" the charges.

Police said Ms Crabtree's living daughter, now 25, needed to be hospitalised from the alleged abuse at the hands of her mother and was now recovering.

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