A Canberra mother accused of kidnapping her child switched her plea to guilty in court on Tuesday.
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Tessa Woodcock, 36, appeared briefly in the ACT Magistrates Court where she entered the plea to a charge of leading a child away.
She has already pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching a family violence order.
Woodcock, who did not have custody of her six-year-old son, allegedly took him unlawfully from the playground of his school in August.
The case sparked the ACT's first ever use of the amber alert, which triggers an urgent nationwide broadcast in child abduction or high-risk missing child cases.
Police said the pair was on foot in the bush, and lacking suitable clothing, shelter and water.
Woodcock has been in custody since her arrest on August 30.
Magistrate Peter Morrison vacated the March hearing date and set down the sentence for January 9.
