She was sentenced to 2 years in prison on Friday, having faked qualifications to urge employment as a live-in nanny and brought the 2 young children across the state of Victoria without permission.
Melbourne Magistrate Johanna Metcalf said the motive behind the "bizarre crime" remains unclear.
In the past, Azzopardi has posed as a victim of sex trafficking. She has claimed to be Swedish royalty and a Russian gymnast whose whole family died during a murder-suicide incident. Throughout her 20s and early 30s, she repeatedly pretended to be a young teenager. And together with her slight figure, soft voice and a bent to nervously chew her fingers, she often got away with it.
For years she has been running into trouble with authorities. She has been deported from foreign countries, she has been jailed for brief periods. Yet, the saga seemed never-ending.
The couple said they found her through an internet service for au pairs and trusted her initially . She moved into their house and relocated with them from Brisbane to Melbourne. But her story began to unravel when the couple received reports about her using Mrs Jervis's identity to pretend to be a casting agent. She had befriended a 12-year-old girl, telling her she could get her employment as a voiceover artist during a Pixar movie.
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Police investigators examined CCTV footage and administered door-to-door enquiries. They worked big welfare specialists and reached bent missing persons services, Interpol, a forensic lab , the immigration bureau, the violence and sexual abuse unit.
Noticing that braces on her teeth had been recently fitted, they contacted paediatric orthodontists across the country to ascertain if they remembered her.
Det Supt Gallagher said there have been always questions over her age but he never expected her to be entirely ungenuine. "There was no endgame," he told the BBC. "She was put during a children's hospital, not eating, not talking. It wasn't fun."
His investigations unit ended up seeking special permission from the supreme court to share her picture during a public plea for information, as she was deemed a minor.
The following year, Azzopardi turned up in Calgary, Canada. an identical story played out but this point she vocalised it. She claimed she was Aurora Hepburn, 14-year-old victim of abuse, who had escaped a kidnapper. She was 26 at the time.
Again, investigators and health care workers spent weeks on the case, until someone discovered the Dublin story and made a connection.
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