Best-selling author Fiori Giovanni is charged with killing her seven-month-old baby daughter - as she pays tribute to her 'beautiful little angel'
- Media commentator and best-selling author faces charges of child homicide
- Little girl found unresponsive at home in July, mother due in court Wednesday
- Ms Giovanni wrote tribute 'light she has sparked in us can never be put out'
- Police have not revealed circumstances surrounding the death of the child
- Ms Giovanni shared daughter Illen and has son Odis with partner Ben Bellinger
A best selling author has been charged with child homicide after her seven-month-old daughter was discovered unresponsive.
Fiori Giovanni,35, will face court on Wednesday morning after baby Illen was found at the apartment she shared with her partner Ben Bellinger and their two children on July 18, according to the Herald Sun.
Victoria Police have not released details surrounding the circumstances of the little girl's death.
Ms Giovanni wrote a moving tribute on social media after the tragic incident calling her 'our beautiful little angel'.
Fiori Giovanni (pictured), 35, will face court on Wednesday after baby Illen was found at the apartment she shared with her partner Ben Bellinger and their two children on July 18
Ms Giovanni wrote a moving tribute on social media after the tragic incident calling her 'our beautiful little angel'
She wrote: 'A shining star was sent to us to inspire, change, and transform our lives in the short 7 and half months we had the pleasure of being with her.
'Our beautiful angel may be gone and we can't physically hold her but her amazing presence can never be forgotten as she'll forever be in our heart.
'And the light she has sparked in us can never be put out.
'We are currently not taking calls for we need this time to heal and process and be there for our beautiful son Odis but we've decided to have her cremated so that she can always be here with us.'
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The couple held her funeral over Zoom as family and friends could not attend in person due to coronavirus restrictions.
The motivational speaker posted videos on social media about the grief of losing a child.
In one she said: 'This is something that no parent should ever have to go through.
'I thought I had been through the worst type of pain the world has to offer.
'But I'm quickly realising that the kind of pain that comes from losing a child is a different kind of pain. It's something that takes a piece of you and I don't think you ever get it back.
'It is something that I have never felt before.'
Ms Giovanni is a bestselling author and humans rights activist regularly appears on television as a guest panelist. Pictured here on Studio 10
Ms Giovanni is a bestselling author and humans rights activist with a raft of accolades to her name.
She appears regularly on television as a guest panelist, attends corporate functions as a keynote speaker and has sold more than 30 books.
Her autobiography Defy your Destiny talks about the challenges she overcame to arrive in Australia and how she was able to become an entrepreneur.
She was born in Eritrea in north east Africa and was 12-years-old when she convinced her parents to let her escape an arranged marriage to a 25-year-old man.
At the age of 14 she started a summer camp which she later realised was preparation for mandatory army service.
She later fled to neighbouring Sudan in search of a better life.
Ms Giovanni set up 'My Mind Valley' which is an affirmation program designed around her 'unrelenting belief that people can change their world by changing the way they speak to themselves.'
