Former KTN news anchor, Esther Arunga, was on Thursday sentenced to 10 months in prison but immediately released on parole.
She had admitted lying to the police after her three-year-old son, Sinclair Timberlake, died as a result of blunt force trauma to his abdomen.
Arunga had initially told investigating authorities that her son had died after rolling down a flight of stairs, in their home in Kallangur, north of Brisbane, on June 2014.
At the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday, Arunga was sentenced by Justice Martin Burns who was sympathetic to Esther's situation saying she had suffered a great deal during the five years since her son's death.
"You went from being a wife and a mother, who was at that time nursing a six-month-old baby and who was otherwise trying to establish your young family in a new county, to losing your son, husband and daughters," Justice Burns explained.
Brisbane Times reported that the couple's two Australian-born daughters, who were two-years-old and six-months-old at the time of their older brother's death, were placed in foster care.
Sinclair's father and former Kenyan presidential candidate Quincy Timberlake was charged with his murder.
Timberlake faced a committal hearing in Brisbane, Australia in April where the various details of the case were revealed as he is set to be tried for the murder of his three-year-old son.
Australian Associated Press quoted Crown Prosecutor Danny Boyle saying Arunga called emergency services and told them that the boy had fallen down the stairs.
Parole is the temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behaviour.
