Samantha Azzopardi, 33, was jailed after she pleaded guilty to knowingly making a false representation to police that she was a victim of child neglect.
Bizarre scenes unfolded in Sydney when an internationally notorious conwoman in her 30s allegedly tricked people into believing she was 14.
Samantha Azzopa
Samantha Lyndell Azzopardi was sentenced to two years behind bars in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday for a string of fraud and child stealing charges, with a non-parole period of one year.
After she made global headlines pretending to be a teenager in Ireland and Canada, no one heard about Samantha Azzopardi for several years. But in that time, she was conning families across Melbourne.