“Your sense of right and wrong was skewed when you got caught up in believing what you were told,” Brisbane District Court Judge Leanne Clare told Fazldeen on Friday.

The mother-of-four gave the pair a place to stay in April 2018, knowing they were hiding while a court case was pending.

“Your support helped them do it.”

Fazldeen accepted the grandmother’s distrust of the system, supporting her efforts to frustrate the court in its ability to do justice according to law, Judge Clare said.

She asked the woman to leave after about 12 days when another person was arrested on a conspiracy charge.

“It seems that that is when you realised the seriousness of what you had got yourself into,” Judge Clare said.

The conduct in deliberately helping the woman hide must be viewed as serious.

But her role was at the tail end, not part of a direct deception of the court and not for personal gain, Judge Clare added.

“Your motivation was selfless, albeit grossly misguided and reckless to the true potential consequences for the child.”

Fazldeen was very young when her mother left, leading to a very hard childhood and an itinerant life with her father and grandparents who were drovers moving between Queensland and NSW.

She left school after grade 5, becoming a housekeeper and nanny at age 14.

After having four children Fazldeen studied further, helped Indigenous children and worked in various roles including in prisons, clearly making a difference in many lives, the court heard.

Judge Clare ordered that a conviction be recorded, saying that would be the real penalty for Fazldeen.

“Your income and your interest has been in working with children and a conviction may very well exclude that.”

Fazldeen was given a 12-month good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting an attempt to pervert the course of justice.