A mother of a baby boy found dead under blankets in a motel room shared bizarre online posts prior to her arrest.
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Benjamin Nicholas Houghton, 40, and Yue Ning Lieu, 42, will spend at least seven months behind bars after police discovered the infant's body during a welfare check at the Tollgate Motel in Glen Osmond in Adelaide's south on Saturday.
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Police said that a post-mortem examination revealed the baby boy was aged between six and seven months old and had been 'deceased for a period of time'.
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They added that the pair had been living at the motel since they arrived in Adelaide earlier this year and had not been in contact with South Australian authorities prior to their arrests on Saturday.
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Houghton and Lieu were charged with criminal neglect and with destroying human remains to pervert the course of justice.
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Houghton was also charged with one count of hindering police.
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The couple appeared before the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday via a bedside hearing.
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They did not apply for bail and were remanded in custody until May 3, 2027.
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Benjamin Nicholas Houghton and Yue Ning Lieu (above) were arrested on Saturday after a baby boy's body was found in a motel room in Adelaide
Police found the deceased infant during a welfare check at Tollgate Motel in Adelaide's south on Saturday
Lieu shared several disturbing posts (one above) in the days leading up to her arrest
Lieu began sharing disturbing content on her Facebook and Instagram earlier this year.
Just three days before her arrest on Saturday, Lieu shared several posts about unidentified people trying to spy on her.
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'Stop teleporting flies into my room,' she wrote.
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Later that same day, Lieu posted about the 'advantages' of time travel and expressed concern about 'gauss equipped' trucks driving past and hitting her with 'magnetic weapons'
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She posted multiple times a day on Facebook until her page fell silent on Saturday morning, when police discovered her son's body under blankets in the motel room.
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An Instagram account linked to Lieu's blog, Health in Lieu, was inactive in the weeks leading up to her arrest but previously shared photos of people she believed were 'spies' and AI-generated horror videos.
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One clip posted in March seemingly compared her co-accused, Houghton, to a monster and called him the 'spirit of hatred'.
The Daily Mail does not suggest Lieu's posts indicate any wrongdoing by her or Houghton.
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Houghton and Lieu (above) were charged with criminal neglect and destroy human remains to pervert the course of justice
Lieu wrote on Facebook of unidentified people trying to spy on her and 'guass (sic) equipped' trucks (above) driving nearby
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I was a healer wanting to share my gifts with this world but today I am a TI living in a tent, sharing truth before it becomes illegal,' one of her social media profiles states.
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In her blog, Lieu claimed she was a Chinese Traditional Medicine practitioner and 'Chinese/Vietnamese Bhuddist (sic)'.
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Her last post in April 2025 titled 'Help Me in My Fight Against Tyranny' accused governments of using 'mind control' to 'enslave us'.
'I fight every day in ways that you cannot comprehend (unless you have been in my shoes),' she wrote.
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'Our government is using our money for research and development in scientific endeavours not to make our lives better, but to better enslave us.
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'Their current focus is mind control, hence their interest in quantum science, and the popping up of private DNA labs is not to 'solve crime'.
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'Guess who the guinea pigs are?
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I resist and if you help me resist the tyranny of the communist government, you help yourselves resist too.'
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Police confirmed Houghton and Lieu previously lived in Victoria and NSW.
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Benjamin Nicholas Houghton, 40, and Yue Ning Lieu, 42, were arrested at the Tollgate Motel on Saturday
Lieu and her then two-year-old daughter were reported missing in Sydney in May 2021, sparking serious concerns for their wellbeing.
Lieu attended a police station in Canberra eight days later and informed police that her daughter was staying at a relative's home in Victoria.
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SA Police declined to comment when contacted by the Daily Mail on Tuesday night about Lieu's daughter.
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Specialist crime detectives have taken over the investigation into the baby boy's death due to the 'nature and complexity of the incident'.
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Police are seeking assistance from anyone who has stayed at the Tollgate Motel, and specifically anyone who has information about the occupants of room four to contact Crime Stoppers.
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'No further comment will be made at this stage in the investigation,' the statement added.
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