the Star wrote:Esther Timberlake on Monday pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter.
The 38-year-old admitted misleading police in order to help her husband escape punishment.
According to the Australian Associated Press, Crown prosecutor Danny Boyle told the court Esther called triple zero just before 2 am on June 18.
When paramedics and police arrived, she told them her son had fallen down the stairs.
But an autopsy revealed Sinclair died "as a result of a severe blunt force such as punching or stamping or similar" and his injuries were inconsistent with a fall.
Mr Boyle said Esther diverted the spotlight away from her husband for 26 days.
It wasn't until Quincy was involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility that Esther changed her statement.
She told police she went into the bathroom on the night of June 17 to find Quincy hitting Sinclair in the stomach.
"He then threw him against the wall," the court heard she told investigators.
Esther claimed her husband was saying "there's a devil in his stomach, I have to get it out".
Defence barrister Katarina Prskalo said her client believed her husband was mentally unwell and she had gotten him help in 2013."
She had not realised how unwell he was until the night of her son's death," she said.
Ms Prskalo said Esther also had her own mental health issues.
Justice Martin Burns will sentence her on Thursday.
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