THE LOST CHILDREN

Here you will find all the reasons why we do what we do... Sadly Compiled by this is a list of all the children who lost their lives to child abuse, Katrina Crews murdered or remain missing...They are our little angels.... may they always be remembered... THE LOST CHILDREN

Here you will find all the reasons why we do what we do... Sadly this is a list of all the children who lost their lives to child abuse, murdered or remain missing... They are our little angels.... may they always be remembered...

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL CHILDREN LOST, MANY CASES NEVER MAKE IT TO A PUBLIC FORUM AS DETAILS WILL BE SUPPRESSED. MANY RECENT CASES ARE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION SO MAY NOT BE INCLUDED. ONE NEW ZEALAND CHILD DIES EVERY 5 WEEKS DUE TO ABUSE. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBOURS, COLLEGUES, COMMUNITIES, AND CITIZENS TO STAND UP FOR CHILDREN. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY ERRORS.

EVIL TRIUMPHS WHERE GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING.

Bradley Livingstone (9 years) Ellen Livingstone (6 years) January 2014 Sadly Bradley and Ellen were shot dead by their father, corrections worker, Edward Livingstone (51) in their home. A neighbour tried in vain to save the children by attempting to wrestle the gun away from their father but tragically was unable to stop the incident. Edward had previously breached his protection orders twice and was discharged without conviction on both accounts.

Honour Shamrock Ashworth (3 months) January 2014 Honour received serious injuries in his Invercargill home and later died in Starship hospital. Investigations are ongoing in this case.

Rayner-Lee Soljar Thompson-Hatley (4 months) April 2013 Rayner-Lee was fatally injured in his Wairoa home. It is suspected he died of head injuries. Investigations are ongoing in this case and no chargers have been made at this time.

New Born Baby Girl September 2012 A new born baby girl found deceased and wrapped in a towel by a Taita Drive resident in September 2012. The infant’s mother was charged with her manslaughter which was later changed to infanticide and finally all charges were dropped against her.

Atreyu Taylor-Matene (1 year) July 2012 1 year old Atreyu died due to head injuries in his Whangarei home, investigation is ongoing and no charges have been made that we are aware of at this time.

Leilani Mary Jane Lotonu'u-Lorigan (2 years) June 2012 Leilani died in her Manurewa home from septicemia from two ruptures in her bowel. Her step father Michael Martin was charged with her murder but found not guilty. His defence claimed his innocence and suggested it must have been her mother Amy Lorigan.

Hinekawa Topia (2 months) January 2012 2 month old Hinekawa Topia died in Whanganui from what is believed to be a non-accidental head injury. She was a triplet. Thomas Tamatea Ariki-Nui McGregor, 31, her father was sentenced to a minimum non period of 17 yrs imprisonment for her murder.

2 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z James Joseph Ruhe Lawrence (2 years) November 2011 JJ, as he has become known died at his home at Takitimu St, Orakei. He had sustained blows that had caused significant damage to his internal organs. Joel Loffley, 29, unemployed, of Mangere, was charged with the manslaughter of JJ. He was the boyfriend of JJ’s mother. He was subsequently sentenced to a minimum of no less than 19 years.

Jade Bayliss (13 years) November 2011 Jade was found murdered in her burning Somerfeid home. She was home sick from school when it is alleged that Jeremy McLaughlin, 34 entered the home assaulted and murdered Jade, burgled the residence and then set it alight. He had been in a relationship with Jade’s mother whom at the time had not known that Jeremy had killed before and had a history of violence. Their relationship had come to an end 3 weeks prior to Jade’s death. He was jailed for a minimum non parole period of 23 years for criminal harassment of her mother, murder, arson and burglary. Jolon Sweeney a 40 yo man is also facing charges as an accessory after the fact.

Terepo Taura-Griffiths(1 year) November 2011 Just one week prior to JJ’s death another toddler died in Otahuhu in suspicious circumstances. He died in Starship hospital on November 6th with horrific head injuries. He was in the care of his godparents at the time. His 32yo godmother Mariam Filihia was charged with his murder.

Hayden Miles (15 years) August 2011 27 yo Gavin John Gosnell has been charged with the murder of Hayden. A 35 yo male and 18 yo female have also been charged in connection with his robbery and death. Hayden disappeared while in CYFS care, it is believed he was robbed then murdered. His remains were found in December at the Ruru Lawn Cemetery in Linwood. Gavin John Gosnell was jailed for 18 years for the murder and dismemberment of the 15-year-old.

Kororia Matthews-Poumako (14 months) April 2011 A 14-month-old girl died at the hands of her mother, who was seeking help for substance abuse. Kataraina Te Iti Matthews, 33, and Kororia Matthews-Poumako, 14 months, were found dead at a flat on Dominion Rd, in Mt Roskill.

Serenity-Jay Scott- Dinnington (6 months) April 2011 Serenity-Jay Scott-Dinnington was admitted to hospital after an "incident" at the Havelock Rd house where she lived with her mother. Her life support was switched off at Starship Hospital yesterday afternoon, and she died at 4.35pm surrounded by family members. A post-mortem examination confirmed the little girl's injuries were not accidental. Matthew Ellery the boyfriend of mother Chelsea Scott was charged with Serenity’s murder.

3 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Mikara Ranui Jarius Reti (5 months) January 2011 Trent Owen Ngaruhe Hapuku 21, is accused of killing a five-month-old boy was found trying to play a PlayStation game as the baby was dying on his shoulder. The baby lived with his mother, Jamie Reti, two-year-old brother and Hapuku in a sleepout behind a house in Kingsley Drive, Flaxmere. A pathologist's report found the baby was also suffering from healing fractures to his ribs that were estimated as being between a week and a fortnight old. Hapuku somehow caused critical blunt-force injury to the baby's liver, severing it, and fracturing four of his ribs. The injury to the liver probably resulted from it being crushed internally against the baby's spinal column, police say.

Sahara Jayde Baker-Koro (5 years) December 2010 Kerry Ratana, 24, who had been living at the house with Sahara but not related to her, was charged with sexual violation and her manslaughter. The abuse occurred between December 18 and 21. Ratana had been in court a few months earlier convicted and discharged of a minor disorderly charge. "I want you to write to me in 12 months and tell me how wonderful your life is," Judge Clapham said. Sahara was found dead in her home later that same year.

Seini Unaloto Ikamanu (3 years) December 2010 Seini was taken to Starship Hospital after an incident at her Beachhaven home on 24 March. She spent her third birthday in a coma and died on December 6. A man has been charged with causing her injuries, grievous bodily harm and also failing to provide the necessities of life. He has been remanded on bail and to reappear at the High court July 2011 when a trial date will be finalised.

Cezar Taylor (6 months) July 2010 Cezar's injuries were consistent with "shaking and blunt force trauma, which is a blow to the head" and appeared to have happened over a period of time. Cezar’s stepfather, James Allan Hemana, 30, also known as James Sylva, has been charged with assaulting the baby. The family were also known to Cyfs and the assault occurred between visits with the family.

Anna Sangha (2 years) June 2010 Deepak Nagpal 24, was sentenced to a minimum sentence of 20 years after the double murder of Anna and her mother. He was boarding with the family and after being asked to leave he stabbed the mother more than 100 times, chased Anna 2, down and stabbed her 10 times then put her in a washing machine with various items and put it on a wash cycle.

Karl Perigo-Check Junior (30 months) October 2009 After wetting himself while sleeping Karl received two broken ribs which punctured his lung. After going to the toilet he was kicked several times eventually splitting his pancreas on his spine, a vein divided and Karl died shortly afterwards. Rikki Ngatai-Check, 23, had been in a secret relationship with Karl's mother Lilah McGregor and was sentenced to with a non parole period of 17 years.

4 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Hail-Sage McClutchie (22 months) September 2009 Hail-Sage died in the early hours of September 27 after being taken to Waikato Hospital with serious head injuries the night before. It is believed she sustained her injuries while at a house in Morrinsville. Police confirmed that the 22 month old’s death was homicide but no one will be charged with the crime.

Jacqui Peterson-Davis (2 years) August 2009 Norefjell Davis, 36, was found guilty of manslaughter and wilfull ill-treatment of a child, she was jailed for 8 years and 6 months. On August 7, Davis punched, kicked and slammed Jacqui's head against the floor because her daughter would not go to sleep and she would not pick up her toys. She told police she kicked Jacqui down the hall, punched her repeatedly, slammed her head into the floor, and picked her up and punched her again. Jacqui died the next day. She was found to have fractures to her pelvis and three ribs, severe internal injuries, bruising and cuts to the face, extensive scalp bruising and a bleeding brain. She had older injuries as well - fractured collarbone, arm, ribs, toes and a previously fractured pelvis.

Britney Angelique Abbott (9 years) August 2009 Garth Abbott is serving a 4½ sentence for the manslaughter of his nine-year-old daughter Brittany, who died after hitting a tree branch when her father drove off the summit of Mt in August 2005. His two daughters were not wearing seat belts and were flung from his 4WD. Britney was killed instantly while Shirvaun, then 4 years old, was seriously injured.

Cash McKinnon (3 years) August 2009 The Court of Appeal today imposed a minimum non-parole period of three years and six months on the 23-year-old former security guard Sean Donnelly, who was sentenced to seven years' jail in March for the manslaughter of three-year-old Cash McKinnon. Donnelly was found guilty of manslaughter following a two-week jury trial in the High Court at Palmerston North in February. He was charged after he swung Cash around by the ankles as punishment for being cheeky, after she put a toilet roll in the toilet, but Donnelly became dizzy and let go of the young girl, causing the severe brain haemorrhage that killed her the next day.

Keira Watson (4 years) Ellah Watson (2 years) (Sisters) July 2009 Melissa Dorward and her daughters Keira and Ellah Watson were found dead in their coastal Hawke's Bay property in July 2009. Coroner found that the heavily pregnant mother had most likely suffocated her two daughters before committing suicide.

Dominic Flowers (8 years) July 2009 A mother who died with her 8-year-old son hid behind a facade that she was coping with severe depression. On July 17, as Kim's husband, James, went to work, he told the couple's 8-year-old son, Dominic, that he loved him. He expected to be home that night to tuck him into bed but instead found the bodies of Kim and Dominic in their West home.

5 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Trent James Mathews (13 months) June 2009 A woman who killed her 13-month-old foster son by repeatedly hitting him and angrily shaking him now faces more than two years' jail time after the Crown appealed her previous sentence of home detention. Sasha Pene was convicted for the manslaughter of her foster son Trent Matthews on June 5 2009 in Rotorua after she hit him hard on the head three or four times and angrily shook him because he was crying. Pene was initially sentenced to one year of home detention and 100 hours' community work but following an appeal from the Solicitor-General, the Court of Appeal increased the sentence to two years and three months' imprisonment.

JayRhis Ian Te Koha (5 weeks) March 2009 A father who forcefully squeezed his hands around his 5-week-old son and shook him to death has been jailed for seven years and two months, a term the infant's mother says is not enough. Adam Christopher Lock, 22, of Taupo, was sentenced in the High Court at Rotorua after pleading guilty in August to the manslaughter of his son Jayrhis Ian Te Koha Lock-Tata. He had also previously pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting his son with intent to injure him, leaving him with fractured ribs as a 2-or 3-week-old.

Cherishsiliala Tahuri-Wright (3 years) February 2009 Cherishsiliala Tahuri-Wright, known as Cherish, was found with severe head injuries in a house in Marton shared by her maternal grandmother, her grandmother's partner and another young child on February 17. She died in Wellington Regional Hospital when life support was switched off two days later. The grandmother 57-year-old Joanne Jasmine Tahuri was sentenced to 5 years and 9 months imprisonment for manslaughter.

Riley Justin Osbourne (16 months) December 2008 Sixteen-month-old Riley died at Auckland's Starship Hospital, four days after he was airlifted from his mother's hometown of Kerikeri where he had been left blind and brain damaged. His stepfather Kyle Skerten 23 was sentenced to 9 ½ years for manslaughter.

Duwayne Toetu Taote Pailegutu (7 years) July 2008 Duwayne had suffered 75 external injuries from the assaults, and scalds from where his step father had tried to shock him with cold and then hot water. A man who repeatedly hit his seven-year-old stepson with a cricket wicket and threw him against a wall of their Nelson home because he left his jumper at school has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the boy's "callous" murder. Johnny Pukerua Joachim, 37, was ordered to serve a non parole period of 18 years.

Dylan Hohepa Rimoni (3 years) April 2008 Patricia Angela Pickering, 38, will have to serve a minimum term of 17 years for the murder of Dylan Hopeha Rimoni. Dylan died in hospital on April 18, 2008 from massive head injuries

6 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Tahani Mohamed (11 weeks) January 2008 Azees Mahomed, originally from South Africa, was in 2009 found guilty of murdering 11- week-old Tahani Mahomed as well as two counts of causing her grievous bodily harm and one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life. He was sentenced to a minimum non- parole period of 17 years for the murder and five years for each of the other three charges. His wife, Tabbasum, was also found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life and sentenced to four years' jail. Both were to be deported to South Africa on their release. Their daughter died on New Year's Day 2008, four days after being admitted to hospital with serious head injuries. Tahani was also severely malnourished, having gained just 200g since birth.

Jyniah Mary Te Awa (10 months) September 2007 Jyniah Mary Te Awa was subjected to a month and a half of torture and abuse at the hands of Tiana Mary-Anne Odessa Kapea 30, the child’s minder. During her short life, the baby was held against a gas heater, swung around by her hair, hung on a clothes line and put in a closed freezer several times. She died from injuries after being kicked, thrown against a wall, shaken and smothered. Kapea was sentenced to life with a minimum parole period of 17 years.

Nia Glassie (3 years) August 2007 Nia was subject to extensive physical abuse for weeks, possibly even months, before being admitted to hospital and dying of brain injuries on 3 August 2007. She had been kicked, beaten, slapped, jumped on, held over a burning fire, had wrestling moves copied from a computer game practiced on her, spit on, placed into a clothes dryer spinning at top heat for up to 30 minutes,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia_Glassie_abuse_case - cite_note- NZ_Herald_10454501-0 folded into a sofa and sat on, shoved into piles of rubbish, dragged through a sandpit half-naked, flung against a wall, dropped from a height onto the floor, and whirled rapidly on an outdoor rotary clothes line until thrown off. Mother, Lisa Kuka, 35, was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter, her partner Wiremu Curtis, 19, and his brother Michael, 22, were found guilty of murder and face life sentences. Michael Pearson, 20, and Michael Curtis's partner Oriwa Kemp, 18, were convicted of child cruelty.

Tyla-Maree Flynn (22 months) June 2007 Tokoroa toddler Tyla-Maree Flynn was 22 months old when she was severely burnt while in the care of her mother's partner, Rikki Hotham (also known as Riki Hopa), on June 28, 2007. Medical attention was not sought until 16 hours after she was burnt and she died an hour after reaching Tokoroa Hospital.Hotham told police Tyla-Maree was burnt when her older brother turned on a hot shower but an autopsy showed otherwise and Hotham was eventually charged with her murder. However, Hotham died in a car crash in October 2008, four months before he was to go on trial.

Sachin Dahni (16 months) June 2007 Sachin died of head injuries at Auckland's Starship Hospital on June 21, 2007. He was found badly injured when police stopped a car being driven erratically on June 19. Tears of joy ran down the face of Abhinesh Kumar Sharma as he was acquitted of the murder and manslaughter of his nephew.

7 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Jhia Tua (2 years) May 2007 Hayden John Wallace, 27, and Karl Unuka Check, 26, were sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Warwick Gendall, who imposed a minimum non-parole period of 15 years for the murder of the toddler in a gang-related drive by shooting in May 2007. Wallace was found to have been the one who fired the fatal shots into the Gonville home of Black Power member Josh Te Tua, killing two year-old Jhia who was sleeping on the couch. Check was the planner, and Forbes the driver, the court was told.

Cheyenne Petersen (18 months) March 2007 A drug-addled mother whose 18-month-old baby drowned after she deserted it in the bush could be out of prison in just 10 months. Natasha Dawn Petersen, 31, was sentenced last week to two-and-a-half years prison for the manslaughter of her daughter Cheyenne Petersen, whom she abandoned in dense bush on March 7 2007 while in a methamphetamine-induced psychosis. Under current parole laws, Petersen - who has nine previous convictions largely for drug offences - will be eligible for release from prison after serving one-third of her sentence.

Charlene Makaza (10 years) January 2007 George Evans Gwaze, 56, denies a charge of murdering his adopted daughter, Charlene Makaza, 10, and two of sexually violating her. Charlene died in the early hours of January 7, 2007 in Hospital. Police were called in after medical staff discovered genital injuries. Gwaze’s DNA was found in her underwear and he was charged with her sexual assault and of suffocating her. Gwaze’s defence was that she died due to complications of her HIV and that the DNA was caused by transference. He was acquitted and that was later appealed. This case is still before the courts.

Chris Kahui (3 months) Cru Kahui (3 months) (Twin Brothers) June 2006 Christopher Arepa and Cru Omeka Kahui died 18 June 2006 in Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital after being admitted with serious head injuries. The father, 21-year-old, Christopher Sonny Kahui was charged with their murder. His defense was that the mother Macsyna King was responsible for the deaths. After a six week trial, the jury took just one minute to acquit him. No one else has been charged in relation to the death of the twins.

Alyssa Murphy (6 months) March 2006 Wellington regional coroner Ian Smith has released his decision that Alyssa Patricia Little- Murphy died at Nelson Hospital on March 25, 2006, as a result of being murdered by being drowned in a bath by her father. The baby girl was living with her mother Chontelle Murphy and was having a bath with her father Kevin Joseph Little of Kaitangata, south Otago, when he drowned her. Ms Murphy and Little had separated at the time of the murder and Ms Murphy had begun court actions against him regarding custody and property orders. Little is serving a 17-year minimum non-parole sentence for his daughter's murder.

Arwen Fletcher (23 months) March 2006 Warick Broadhurst 18, was sentenced to 7 years 6 months for the manslaughter of his step daughter. Arwen had a 28 centimetre fracture as her skull was split open from front to back. The pathologist had never seen such a large skull fracture in a young child.

8 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Staranise Waru (7 months) February 2006 Staranise was admitted to hospital with cerebral swelling, brain-oxygen deprivation, spinal- cord damage and bruising to the head. No-one has been charged over the seven-month- old's death. The coroner ruled her death as non accidental and said it was either the father or the mother. There was not enough evidence to convict either parent.

Ngatikaura Ngati (3 years) January 2006 Maine Ngati, 32, and her partner, Teusila Fa'asisila, 27, each received prison terms of 8 1/2 years for the killing after being convicted at trial last month on charges of manslaughter, failing to provide the necessaries of life and child cruelty. The couple were charged after Ngatikaura died in Middlemore Hospital within hours of receiving repeated beatings on January 30 and 3, 2005. His death came three months after he was returned to his birth mother. The beatings were administered with several weapons, including a baseball bat.

Melissa Sale (14 months) January 2006 Melissa died on January 8, 2006, at Starship Hospital after her life support was turned off. A post-mortem found she died from a brain haemorrhage. Yesterday, in the High Court in New Plymouth, Justice Lynley Stevens sentenced Karen Alice Robinson, 35, to 6 1/2 years in jail for manslaughter for the death of her 14 month old fosterchild.

Aaliyah Morrissey (2 years) September 2005 Michael John Curran, 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 20 years and six months for murdering Aaliyah Morrissey. Aaliyah had 30 bruises on her body when she died, some inflicted by Curran in the days leading up to her death. The worst covered the area from the top of her nappy down to her pubic region. Medical experts said this bruising was consistent with stomping and they had seen nothing like it in 15 to 20 years of practice. Aaliyah also had a fractured arm and damage to her eyes which would have left her blind in one eye and significantly impaired in the other had she lived. The head injury that killed her resulted in severe brain swelling and was the result of "violent decelerative force" applied to her head.

Sarah Rebekah Haddock-Woodcock (3 months) March 2005 The toddler died in March 2005 from a brain haemorrhage resulting from a 4 centimetre skull fracture, but a post-mortem found she had suffered other substantial injuries in the days before her death, including eight rib fractures and a haemorrhage in her left chest wall, most likely caused by an adult leaning on her chest with a knee. Joshua Woodcock was sentenced to 12 years for the manslaughter of his daughter and her mother Jaymie Haddock was sentenced to 2 ½ years for wilfully neglecting her child.

Molly Rose McRae (6 years) December 2004 Gore woman Maree Frances MacRae was legally insane when she killed her 6-year-old daughter Molly with a knife and attempted to murder her husband Derek on December 6 2004. Molly's father had received injuries to his hands, while two other children in the Charlton house were uninjured.

9 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Cameron Fielding (10 years) Krystal Fielding (8 years) December 2004 Brenda Lea Fielding, 40, raised her two children in the quiet seaside community of Onaero, 30km from New Plymouth. While her husband was overseas for work, she was found dead with her two children, Cameron, 10, and Krystal, 8. Both children had head injuries in what police have confirmed as a murder suicide. "I don't believe Brenda could have done that." These were the words from Mark Fielding just hours after police told him his wife Brenda, 40, had killed their two children and then herself.

Mereana Clemments-Matele (14 months) December 2004 Demis Paul, 25, was on home detention for burglary offences when he killed 14-month-old Mereana Clements-Matete, he was sentenced 17 years. Paul murdered the toddler just before her second Christmas, punching her so hard it was like she had been killed in a high speed car crash. The force of the blow caused a massive rupture of the bowel.

Storm Apera-Seve (4 years) November 2004 On November 3, 2004, Lapana Seve pulled over on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway and killed his daughter, reportedly by cutting her throat. Then he threw himself into the path of an oncoming truck, dying instantly. He was seeking custody of Storm at the time of their deaths.

Kathleen Harris (7 months) November 2004 Blair Williams was sentenced to a minimum 17-year jail term for the killing of seven-month- old Kathleen Harris, whose already dead, badly bruised body was taken to an Otaki medical centre on November 27. Kathleen’s mother Tracee Harris is serving a seven-year jail term for manslaughter, on the basis that she had failed to get medical care for her battered daughter. Kathleen's skull was fractured, and she had two broken arms and internal injuries. She had landed so heavily on a textured fabric that it was imprinted on her forehead.

Stephen Bain (14 years) June 2004 Robin Irving Bain, 58, his wife, Margaret Arawa Bain, 50, and three of their children, Arawa Mary Cullen-Bain, 20, Laniet Margaret Bain, 18, and Stephen Bain, 14, were shot dead in their Dunedin home. David Bain, 22, was charged with murder. He was later acquitted of the charges

Alyssa Wilson (4 months) June 2004 Alyssa Wilson was just 4 months old when she was shaken so violently that her brain stem was fatally damaged - but no one will be brought to justice for the little girl's death. The West Auckland baby had a number of other injuries, including a 9.5cm fracture to her skull. Alyssa's father, Joseph Wilson, was charged with manslaughter but two trials ended with hung juries. A third trial had to be aborted after one of Mr Wilson's relatives spoke to a juror. The Crown decided not to proceed with a fourth trial and on December 6 the charge against Mr Wilson was withdrawn. That means he cannot be charged again with Alyssa's manslaughter or murder, even if new evidence comes to light.

10 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Will Mercer (6 months) May 2004 Kelvin Mercer died in the burns unit of Auckland's Middlemore Hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning. The bodies of his estranged wife, 34-year-old Wendy Mercer and six month old son Will Mercer were found in their burning house on Thursday night. A post- mortem found Ms Mercer had died from multiple stab wounds and her son from a single stab wound. It was revealed that the night before he attacked his family then set fire to himself, Kelvin Mercer went to Dunedin hospital's mental health department seeking treatment for a drug problem. His former wife had told him he had to stop using marijuana if he was to continue having access to their three children. The separated couples five and three-year- old girls were discharged from hospital on Saturday into the care of their mother’s parents. Both are recovering from knife wounds to the throat.

Te Hau Te Horo O’Carroll (10 years) Ngamata O’Caroll (2 years) (Siblings) February 2004 Bronson O’Carroll 30, stabbed his two young children Te Hau Te Horo aged 10 and Ngamata aged 2, at their Otaki Beach home, he then turned the knife on himself. Bronson had been described as a good father and the reasons why he did this remain unclear.

Gabriel Harrison-Taylor (8 months) January 2004 Sharon Harrison-Taylor was given a life sentence with a minimum non parole period of 12 years after being found guilty of murdering one of her twin baby boys. "I must have hit him on his head, on his forehead or something with the palm of my hand and rolled over. I must have held him down 'til he stopped crying. Then I went back to bed for a sleep".

Raiden Niania (4 months) January 2004 Arthur Charles Niania, 22, regarded as a caring young dad, had denied causing injuries which doctors said killed four-month-old Raiden Niania on January 15 2004. He was found not guilty of manslaughter after 2 trials. Raiden had injuries consistent with shaken baby syndrome.

Caleb Tribble (4 months) December 2003 Little 4 month old Caleb died due to medical complications from kidney problems. His parents were unaware of the seriousness of his condition and chose to pray for Caleb rather than seek medical assistance. David and Cathy Tribble were convicted and discharged.

Rocky Wano (15 years) December 2003 Rangi Kotura Wano, 44, of Tuai, northwest of Wairoa, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years' jail for the manslaughter of 15-year-old Rocky Wano. Rangi kicked and punched Rocky to the ground then put him onto the deck of the vehicle and drove him to another family member's house. There, Wano continued the assault, ramming Rocky into the bonnet of another vehicle. Despite being unconscious, Rocky was put back into the car and punched further before being driven home and placed on a mattress in the spare bedroom.

11 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Coral Ellen Burrows (6 years) September 2003 Six-year-old Coral's stepfather, Steven Williams, was sentenced on February 5 to life imprisonment with a minimum 15-year non-parole period for her murder on September 9 2003. Coral was killed when Williams lost his temper with her after a session smoking the pure form of methamphetamine called P. He punched her unconscious in the back of his car and then drove the badly injured girl around Featherston. When she made a noise while being dumped in bush on the edge of town, Williams hit her with a tree branch, fracturing her skull.

Anahera Ross Lewis (3 years) June 2003 Warwick Whare Reuben Kershaw 25 a former Palmerston North soldier has been jailed for three years for the manslaughter of three-year-old Anahera Ross Lewis. Anehera suffered head injuries when being babysat by Warwick, she died in hospital nine days later.

Iris Davidson (23 months) October 2002 23-month-old Iris Davidson died as a result of non-accidental injuries in 2002. Her mother was charged with manslaughter, wilful ill-treatment and wilful neglect, and her two flatmates were also charged in relation to Iris's death. The jury found no-one guilty of Iris's manslaughter, but found the mother and one of the flatmates guilty of wilful neglect. In the weeks leading up to her death the toddler suffered a fractured leg, two broken wrists, multiple bruising and head injuries which ultimately caused her death.

Wend De Dai (Wenda Zeng) (10 years) September 2002 Zhen Huan Li 41, was jailed for life with a minimum non parole period of 14 years for the murder of his son 10 year old Wend De Dai. He also attempted to murder his wife in the same incident. He attacked them both with a steel table leg.

Shontelle Marks (4 months) September 2002 Leanne Maree Marks, a mother of 6, was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months for smothering 4 month old Shontelle with a heavy duvet to stop her crying. Shontelle died in a Women’s Refuge where her mother Leanne had been staying as she had been evicted for not paying rent.

Brodie Gordon (2 months) September 2002 Marsha Tara Wairoa Gordon, 28, was convicted in April by a jury in the High Court at Palmerston North of the manslaughter of her son Brodie in September 2002. Justice Wild subsequently sentenced her to 3 years in prison. She shook her two month old baby so violently he died.

Kelly Gush (12 years) August 2002 Darren Paul Mackness, who has martial arts experience, is serving at least 17 years of a life jail term for the murder of 12-year-old Kelly Gush in August last year. Kelly died of brain injuries. The court was told he kicked his partner's daughter in the head because he was angry she had vomited. It was revealed earlier that year that CYF, police and Children's Commissioner Roger McClay were aware of concerns for the safety of Kelly and her sister a year before Kelly was killed.

12 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Kalin St Michael (2 years) July 2002 A toddler who was in Child, Youth and Family care since she was four months old was dead within a month of the Family Court giving her mother full custody. For up to five weeks before she died, 2-year-old Kalin St Michael languished with a brain injury so severe doctors said it would have left her in a coma for days. She also had a broken arm. However, those injuries did not kill her; she died from pneumonia on July 15, 2002. Kalin's mother, Lynda Ash, 42, and Ash's partner, William Hirchkop, 32, were sentenced to 2 years in prison for failing to provide the necessaries of life.

Tamati Pokaia (3 years) April 2002 In April 2002, Tamati’s foster carer Michael Waterhouse bent three year-old Tamati over a chair and punched him in the stomach four times, after finding him eating popcorn that he thought had been stolen from another child at kindergarten. He was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 8 years.

Jaelyn Ariki Ngatai Maxwell (6 years) December 2001 The youngster was admitted to Starship Hospital on December 11, the eve of his sixth birthday, suffering from head injuries. He later died on the 18th. Jaelyn's mother's partner, Mansell Dwayne Burns 23, had been charged with his murder. Mansell is now deseased.

Saliel Alpin (12 years) Olympia Jensen ( 12 years) (Half sisters) December 2001 Bruce Howse was given 28 years behind bars for murdering his two step daughters. Howse was convicted of killing Saliel Aplin, 12, and her half sister Olympia Jetson, 11, by stabbing them as they slept in a sleepout at the family's Masterton home. Less than four months before the murders, Olympia had claimed she had been raped by Howse. When Child, Youth and Family investigated, Olympia retracted her claim. The social worker was put on special leave pending an investigation. The deaths of the two girls helped spur the Wairarapa community to launch an anti-violence campaign which promotes safe families and better links between support agencies.

Ryco Lance Mauri (7 months) November 2001 Rebeka Inano Makiroa Love Lowry Mauri, a 27-year-old student of Mt Albert, admitted failing to take reasonable precautions to avoid danger to human life, causing the death of Ryco Lance Mauri in November 2001. A police summary of facts said Mauri turned on the shower to wash the child in the bathtub. The bath was unplugged, but 10 of the boy's toys were in the bath. Mauri left the boy to take a phone call, and when she returned she found her child floating in the bath.

Dominique Hingston (6 years) Nikita Hingston (5 years) (Sisters) August 2001 Sisters Nikita and Dominique Hingston were strangled by their father, Frank, who then committed suicide. He has separated from the girl’s mother and had become depressed, isolated and had a fear of losing his daughters.

13 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Caleb Moorhead (6 months) March 2001 Six-month-old Caleb Moorhead died in March 2001 of bronchial pneumonia after his strictly religious parents, Roby Jan Moorhead and Deborah Anne Moorhead, removed him from hospital and attempted to treat his illness with herbal remedies. Caleb had a severe vitamin deficiency brought on by Mrs Moorhead’s vegan diet. After a high-profile trial in 2002, the Moorheads devout Seventh Day Adventists were convicted of manslaughter after claiming God would save their son. They were jailed for 5 years.

Levi Wright (10 months) February 2001 A 22-year-old man has been jailed for five years for the manslaughter of a 10-month-old boy. Edward George Mita had admitted killing Levi John Wright despite initially laying blame with the boy's mother. The High Court at Wanganui was told that an autopsy found that death was consistent with the boy having been shaken vigorously while his hair was gripped, or with his head striking a hard surface while his hair was held.

Thomas Lance Darshay Schuman (2 years) January 2001 A man facing murder and attempted murder charges believed he was killing Prince Charles, Julius Caesar and Satan when he smothered his young cousin. Hugh Gordon Bryant, aged 23, has been charged with murdering his cousin, Thomas Lance Dashay Schuman, aged two, on January 23 in Masterton, and attempting to murder another cousin, Lorraine Jessica Lea Tapine, then aged nine, a week earlier. The former New Zealand boxing champion has pleaded not guilty on the grounds of insanity. Forensic psychiatrist Professor Phil Brinded said he believed Bryant was legally insane at the time of the murder and attempted murder.

Daniel Marshall Loveridge (13 months) January 2001 On the hot afternoon of January 7, the little boy who had just learned to take his first steps was found dead and trussed up in a black rubbish bag in the boot of a car outside a relative's house about 1km from his home. His mother Evelyn Marshall was charged with his murder and is underwent a psychiatric assessment. She was sentenced to 4 years. Cyfs were cleared of any negligence in their handling of the case as many reports had been made out of concern for the toddler’s wellbeing and fear for his life.

Jordan Briggs (11 months) November 2000 Landles Ropiha, aged 17, has been found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend's 11-month-old baby, Jordan Briggs. He received a mandatory life sentence. The Crown said that Ropiha, from Beach Haven, had swung, flung or thrown the infant against a hard surface causing massive skull fractures and brain damage on November 26.

Liotta Leuta (5 years) October 2000 Sipea Leuta, 30, earlier pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Liotta Leuta. She was sentenced to 6 years jail. The High Court in Auckland heard she became enraged after a dispute with the child about eating his dinner. She went out to the garage and cut a section from a vehicle fan belt, also grabbing a metre-long piece of aerial wire. She used both to repeatedly beat and whip the five-year-old on his stomach, back and front. Liotta suffered severe multiple injuries and later died from inhaling his own vomit.

14 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Alice Perkins (8 years) Maria Perkins (6 years) Cherie Perkins (23 months) October 2000 Police believe Mrs Perkin killed her daughters Alice, aged 8, Maria, 6, and 23-month-old Cherie in their beds before killing herself in the basement of their Songer Street home, Nelson.

Amber Lundy (7 years) August 2000 Lundy is serving a 20-year prison sentence without possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty of the August 29, 2000 killing of his wife and seven-year-old daughter with an axe in their Kelvin Grove home in Palmerston North. On October 2013 the Privy Council in London overturned his convictions and ordered a new trial to be set. This trial will take place in February 2015.

Hinewaoriki Karaitiana-Matiaha (Lillybing) (23 months) July 2000 The two women who admitted ill-treating the Wairarapa toddler known as Lillybing have both been handed jail sentences in the Wellington High Court. Hinewaoriki Karaitiana-Matiaha, who was just 23 months old, died in July last year from a brain injury resulting from a severe shaking by her step-aunt, Rachaelle Namana. Lillybing also suffered severe burns and bruising to her face, and a severe genital injury for which as yet no one has been charged. Namana, 28, was sentenced to six years in prison while her sister, Rongomai Paewai, 27, received two years. Namana admitted a charge of manslaughter while she and Paewai each admitted two charges of wilfully ill-treating the child and two of failing to provide the necessaries of life.

Tangaroa Matiu (3 years) January 2000 While Tangaroa Matiu was being beaten to death with a piece of wood, his mother was cleaning blood from a toilet wall, sprayed there during an earlier beating. As the 3-year-old lay dying in his bed, she checked on him just three times. When she finally summoned medical help, it was far too late to save him. Hoana Rose Matiu stood in the dock without the slightest flicker of emotion as she was sentenced to jail for seven years for manslaughter and cruelty to a child. Her partner, Genesis Mahanga, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering the little boy.

Keziah Te Huia Smith (11 months) Israel Aporo (3 years) (Siblings) December 1999 Brian Desmond Aporo, otherwise known as Smith, was found not guilty of three murder and two attempted murder charges on the grounds of insanity. On December 10, 1999, Aporo cut his tiny children's throats with a butcher's knife, fatally stabbed a neighbour in the heart, and tried to stab his de facto wife and another neighbour. He admitted the actions but denied that he was guilty of murdering Israel Aporo, aged 3, Keziah Te Huia Smith, 11 months, and Trevor Francis Mokaraka, 47. He had also denied attempting to murder partner Te Huia Hape and neighbour John Fenton. After the verdict, Justice Colin Nicholson placed Aporo into institutional care as a special patient under the Mental Health Act.

15 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z River Michael Manawatu-Wright (8 months) August 1999 River Michael Wiremu Manawatu-Wright was just 9 months old when his mother covered his face with a folded blanket and suffocated him. It was about the eleventh time Desiree Wright had tried to smother River in the baby's short life. River was resented by his mother even while he was in the womb - she requested an induced birth three weeks early against doctors' advice - and in the end she killed him because she needed attention. Desiree Wright 23, was jailed for seven years for manslaughter, later reduced to 4 due to her mental illness. Justice Grant Hammond acknowledged that she had killed River partly because she suffered from a rare psychiatric disorder called Munchausen-by-proxy

Nicholas Han (4 years) Christina Han (2 years) (Siblings) August 1999 Two-year-old Christina Han's life ended when her father plunged a knife into her neck so forcefully that it came out the other side. Christina's mother, Angela, and 4-year-old brother Nicholas also died from stab wounds to the neck. All three were bashed in the head with a hammer before being stabbed, and it is likely Nicholas and Angela was unconscious when the fatal stabbings occurred. Robert Han 36, was sentenced to 3 terms of life imprisonment. He had huge gambling debts and was suffering from depression at the time of the murders.

Simon Tokona (18 months) Winiata Tokona (3 years) (Siblings) June 1999 On June 6 Tania Tokona drove her three youngest children to a cemetery 5km from the family home in Tirau. There she took her sleeping 18-month-old Simon and stabbed him to death with a pair of industrial scissors. Three-year-old Winiata was then stabbed repeatedly in his chest and throat; he suffocated to death in his own blood and mucus. Tokona’s 2-year- old daughter, Alexandria, was spared. The 31-year-old mother of five put the bodies of her two youngest sons in the boot of her Ford Fairmont and drove 250km to the Whanganui River where, in a failed suicide bid, she drove off the bank. Tokona was acquitted on the grounds of insanity. She is now in a residential care unit in the Waikato.

Mereana Edmonds (6 years) May 1999 Belinda Edmonds, the child's mother, being sentenced to jail for 8 years for manslaughter and her partner, Dorothy Tipene, to 27 months for cruelty to a child. Mereana Edmonds lived with her mother for only five months, moving to Hamilton from Hawkes Bay where she had been brought up by her nanny. But in those five months she was repeatedly bashed, punched, slapped and kicked. As punishment for wetting her bed, she would be locked in a wash-house, or picked up by her hair and slung into an outside shed to spend the night. Mereana was battered so much that she lost her balance and was unable to walk without banging into furniture or walls. Mereana's death was the result of prolonged blows to the head - one so hard her brain rebounded off the front of her skull.

Jeff Whittington (14 years) May 1999 Jeff was murdered by two men in an anti-gay hate crime in Wellington. Jason Morris Meads 25 and Stephen Smith 27 left Jeff with severe facial injuries and perforated bowels. They were sentenced to life imprisonment, Jason Meads was paroled in 2011 despite being deemed a “high risk” of offending.

16 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z James Whakaruru (4 years) April 1999 After months of beatings and abuse, 7 visits to hospital in one year, 40 examinations medical professionals, he was finally punched and kicked to death by his mother’s boyfriend, Benny Haerewa who was out after having been found guilty of earlier attacks on the same child. Haerewa apparently carried out these beatings, at least on one occasion, in the presence of another child, who on command, handed him such instruments of torture as jug cords and vacuum cleaner pipes. Haewera was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

Kirsty Bently (15 years) December 1998 Kirsty was reported missing after she failed to return home after walking her dog near the North bank of the Ashburton River. Her body was discovered on the 17th of January 1999 52 kilometres from Ashburton near Camp Gully Creek off Scenic Highway 72. To date no one has been charged with her murder.

Lisa Hope (8 years) December 1998 Lisa Hope was stabbed to death by her father, Ian. Her mother, Sharon, wants public recognition that Cyfs failed Lisa. She said Cyfs had access to Ian Hope's medical reports, including a letter from Dr Dougal Steel, consultant psychiatrist, South Sector Community Mental Health Centre, dated August 31, 1998, which outlined his deteriorating mental health and his inability to care for their children. Believing himself to be the third son of God, Mr Hope, who had been admitted to Sunnyside Psychiatric Hospital that June, repeatedly stabbed Lisa the night before she was to return to her mother's care. The couple were separated and Mr Hope had custody of Lisa and her brother Timothy. He committed suicide in hospital three weeks later.

Pirimai Simmond (17 months) October 1998 20-year-old Matthew Ono Leonard Iorangi was cleared of the murder of Pirimai Simmonds at their isolated home at Waotu, 25km northwest of Tokoroa, on October 17 last year, but the jury convicted him of manslaughter and jailed him for 4 ½ years. Iorangi had lost his temper when the 17 month old child started grizzling as he watched televised rugby game. He struck the child heavily on the back, shook him severely and threw him across the room, where he landed on his head, said the judge. An autopsy showed that the child had suffered severe head and internal injuries.

Lucy Carter (7 years) Thomas Carter (4 years) Holly Carter (3 years) (Siblings) August 1998 Briton Stephen Carter killed his three children, Lucy, 7, Thomas, 4, and three-year-old Holly, by drugging them, then driving them to a remote spot where he set fire to the car and then hanged himself. Carter's wife had left the family for a year, and then reconciled seven weeks before the murders. An inquest heard that he had been driven to despair after learning his wife had been having an affair, as well as fearing that she might leave again. He killed after developing an intense sense of the danger that they faced in the world.

17 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Kelly Rae McRoberts (6 years) August 1998 Peter Arthur McRoberts 27, was found guilty of murdering his 6-year-old son Kelly and jailed for life. Kelly was subjected to a prolonged beating after soiling himself. He was left with more than 60 injuries or bruises and shut in an unheated sleepout for two days in the in the middle of winter. The beating took place on a Friday afternoon. McRoberts called an ambulance on Sunday night after Kelly had lost consciousness, did not appear to be breathing, and there was a dark liquid coming from his mouth. Ambulance staff attempted to revive him on the way to the hospital, and CPR was administered for about 45 minutes at the hospital, before Kelly was declared dead.

Jonelle Tarawera (17 months) July 1998 Jonelle Tarawera was 8 weeks old when, in February 1997, she was rushed to Middlemore Hospital in South Auckland with fractured ribs, a high fever and convulsions. Repeated shakings and physical abuse at the hands of her father, Mita Jonathon Barrymore Tarawa, left her a profoundly brain-damaged, tube-fed, spastic quadriplegic. Her father was sentenced to two years' jail in December 1997 after pleading guilty to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm. Jonelle died in July 1998. Cyfs attracted controversy when staff at the Starship children's hospital refused to discharge Jonelle because the service was placing her with a relative convicted of sexual abuse. The service then tried to place her with a woman with a history of child neglect.

Jaydon Perrin (11 months) June 1998 Ten-month-old Jaydon died of massive head injuries at 4.15am last June 8. At least four blows were probably inflicted by a tack hammer the day before. The hammer was found by police in the lounge of Leanne Perrin's Nelson flat, wedged between a collection of children's nursery rhymes and a can of DB Export. Aaron Vercoe, the former de facto partner of Jaydon's mother, Leanne Perrin, was acquitted of a charge of murdering the 11-month-old by a High Court jury after a two-week trial.

Jamoure Chaney (10 months) April 1998 A 16-year-old who dissected his sister's baby was yesterday found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. Nalani Chaney went searching for her 10-month-old son Jamoure, she found her brother carrying out a gruesome "autopsy" in the garage. The youth admitted killing Jamoure at their Birkdale home on Auckland's North Shore on April 16. Chaney's family arranged for him to see a psychiatrist some days before the killing, but at the last minute he refused to go. A new appointment was made for April 17 - the day after the incident.

Nivek Dodunski (17 months) February 1998 Convicted murderer Raymond Owen Meynell was sentenced in the High Court at Hamilton for assaulting a toddler whom he later murdered. Meynell, 26, was given an additional four years in jail to be served concurrently with his life sentence for murdering Nivek Dodunski. A jury found him guilty of murdering 17-month-old Nivek at Huntly on February 9 last year. He had hit Nivek so hard it split the toddler's liver in two.

18 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Marcus Te Hira Grey (2 months) November 1997 Marcus Grey died in Tauranga on November 10, 1997. His parents, Marcus Grey sen and Vicki Martin, had taken him to hospital where staff called the police. The baby had suffered numerous bites, broken ribs and bruises, some of which were about three weeks old. Brain and retinal injuries indicated he had been severely shaken. Marcus Grey Senior has since pleaded guilty to wounding his son with intent to injure and is serving a 4 ½ year jail term.

Tishena Valentine Crosland (2 years) September 1997 A 2-year-old girl murdered by her father had been placed in his care just two months earlier by the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Agency. David Mark Crosland, aged 25, was this week sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering his daughter at Ohinewai on September 9, 1997. At least four women, including the child's grandmother, knew Tishena was being hit, but no one reported it.

Peti Taihuka Cherie Kokiri (12 years) September 1997 John Edmonds murdered his daughter "for God" was jailed for life when he appeared in the Gisborne High Court yesterday. John Henry Edmonds (34), unemployed, pleaded guilty to murdering Peti Taihuka Cherie Kokiri (12) on September 10. The girl had been abducted while on her way to school. Justice Tompkins said there was only one sentence the law allowed - life imprisonment.

Brittany Crothall (3 years) February 1997 Three-year-old Brittany Crothall was strangled and suffocated to death by Luke Sibley, 18. Sibley admitted killing the toddler while she slept to try to cover up the fact that he had sexually abused the child. Luke Frederick Sibley walked into the Christchurch central police station early on February 6, his face covered in blood, and admitted killing Brittany Crothall and the attempted murder of her mother, Jane Crothall, earlier that day. He received a minimum 13 year jail term.

Shae Hammond (17 months) January 1997 Elizabeth Healy a Barnardos caregiver was found guilty of murdering toddler Shae Hammond, who died after her skull was crushed. She was also convicted of injuring 2-year- old Clayton More and poisoning 11 month old Chelsea Graham with salt. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Anaru Te Wheke Danny Te Moananui Rogers (17 months) January 1997 Anaru arrived at Wellington Hospital's intensive care unit with brain haemorrhaging, swelling, severe bruising and untreated broken bones. A scan found no brain activity and he was pronounced dead the next day. Sharon Moke 27, was sentenced to two years' supervision.

Victoria Watson (8 months) February 1996 The eight-month-old girl was found suffocated in her mother's Henderson home on February 18, just six weeks after she had been admitted to hospital with serious non-accidental injuries. No one has been charged with her death or previous injuries.

19 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Veronika Takerei-Mahu (11 months) December 1995 William Murray Graham 23, found guilty of the manslaughter of his daughter Veronica Marie Tekerei-Mahu who died from serious head and abdominal injuries in the Starship Hospital on Christmas Eve. He was sentenced to 7 years jail. Cyfs admitted to mistakes in dealing with this case.

Hohepa Vercoe (5 years) March 1995 Hohepa Vercoe died in March, 1995, in Waikato Hospital after beatings from his Kerepehi grandparents, who pleaded guilty to his manslaughter in December.

Sara Nixon (7 years) March 1995 ON FRIDAY, March 22, Philip Nixon took his beloved seven-year-old Sara for a weekend fishing at Lake Taupo. On Monday, he and Sara were both dead by his hand, leaving a grieving family with only one question on its mind -- why? People can speculate on the pressures Philip Nixon faced as the father of a brain injured child -- little Sara had difficulty walking and talking and needed constant care -- but Philip's wife Julie, who found their bodies in a car outside her Wellington home, says she has no answers -- not yet, anyway.

Cory Harrington (12 years) January 1995 A 12-year-old boy was hit repeatedly with an axe after he muttered "bloody bastard" about his stepfather. David Edward Tobin, 50, handyman, pleaded not guilty of murdering Cory Augustine Harrington, his wife's youngest child, on January 18 at their Taita home. Tobin caused massive skull fractures by hitting Cory with an axe, and then smashed television sets and stereos in the house.

Audreana Aramakutu (15 months) August 1994 Audreana died of massive internal and head injuries that were shown to be inflicted by her mother’s boyfriend. He was charged with the murder but was found not guilty. The coroner found it to be homicide by persons unknown.

Jeanette Rikihana (5 months) October 1994 Jeanette was found with severe bruising to the head, including a cracked skull, and internal bruising. Her teenage father Soulan Pownceby was arrested and charged with her murder. He was jailed for her manslaughter. Later there was controversy over his selection to represent New Zealand in Boxing at the Olympics. He publically apologised "To those I didn't get a chance to apologise to for whatever reason, I just want you to know that I am so sorry. I'm just trying to be the best person I can be."

Nikita Hart (5 years) September 1994 Anthony John Harbottle, 46 of Levin was connected of murdering his five year old stepdaughter, Nikita Hart by a blow to the stomach which ruptured internal organs. Harbottle was suspected of a similar offence against another child some years ago, but insufficient evidence was found to prove that the blow was the cause of the first child's death. He was sentenced to 15 years with a non parole period of 10 years.

20 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Jillayne Peterson (10 months) August 1994 Damion Faasii Peterson 25, of Dargaville was jailed for 5 years for the murder of his daughter Jillayne (10 months), who died from injuries in August 1994. The first trial was aborted and the jury in the second failed to reach a verdict. His wife Moana Peterson has given evidence about his assault on the child. Jillayne died from a punch to the stomach.

Dane Gibson (12 years) May 1994 Inglewood couple Janice Lorraine Gibson and Lindsay Arnold Gibson were found not guilty of murder by virtue of insanity after killing their 12-year-old son Dane Farrell Gibson. The High Court at New Plymouth was told they bashed his head with a paving stone to exorcise a demon possessing him. Both his wrists were broken from being held down with such force.

Glen Bo Duggan (10 years) April 1994 Glen Bo Duggan, 10, died in Christchurch Hospital where he was taken unconscious after a two-day beating. His mother's partner, Peter Wayne Ryder, 36, was originally charged with grievous bodily harm, but this was changed to murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Tiffany Anne Bristol (7 years) Holly Alyse Bristol (3 years) Claudia Abby Bristol (18 months) (Sisters) February 1994 On 5 February 1994, Alan Bristol and his three children, Tiffany (7), Holly (3) and Claudia (18 months), were found dead in Alan Bristol's car parked in the garage of their Wanganui home. It was established that death had been caused by Alan Bristol connecting the exhaust system to the interior of the car. This was the final act of a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation by Alan Bristol against his estranged wife, Christine.

Sasha Summerfeldt (7 years) January 1994 Anastacia Ruth Summerfeldt found guilty of the murder of her daughter Sasha 7, but not guilty, on account of her insanity, of the arson of her Henderson home, in January 1994.

Kirsa Mary Jensen (14 years) September 1993 Kirsa rode her horse to the beach at Awatoto, Napier. She never returned home. Police suspected John Russell, who had been seen with her, apparently to help by contacting her parents, had in fact abducted the girl and most probably used force by knocking her out. No evidence was found and Mr Russell proclaimed his innocence. He has however admitted to killing her on several occasions but has always recanted. He eventually committed suicide.

21 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Megan Turner (11 weeks) January 1980 Cheney Louise Turner (7 weeks) March 1982 Michael Tinnion (8 months) 1993 In 1993, Lisa Jane Turner was found guilty of the murder of her own two children and also Michael Tinnion only 8 months old at the time. She was also found guilty of the attempted murder of two more infants that were left in her care. She was sentenced to life imprisonment and paroled 13 years later.

Jordan Ashby (3 years) March 1993 Phillip Paul Rakete was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for assaulting his partner’s 3 year old son Jordan Ashby. Rakete assaulted him over 4 days, punching and hitting him with a belt (injuries were consistent with a metal studded belt being used in the assault)

Craig Manukau (10 years) November 1992 10-year-old Craig Manukau, went to a school disco against the wishes of his parents - who had been drinking at a party all day. When 29-year-old Carl Manukau came home to find his son had disobeyed his wishes, he drove to the school hall and marched Craig outside. Witnesses described how Carl started punching his son as he threw him into the car and drove off. Nobody intervened. Once home, Carl beat and kicked Craig to death while his wife, 28-year-old Lavinia Manukau, cowered in the kitchen, blocking her ears and turning up the radio so she could drown out her son's screams and her husband's rage. The Commissioner for Children’s inquiry found that the over-familiarity of the CYF social worker working with the family led to an inability to make an objective decisions regarding Craig’s safety.

Amber Lee Cruikshank (2 years) MISSING October 1992 Amber-Lee vanished from the township at the southern tip of Lake Wakatipu on October 17, 1992, aged two and half. After an extensive two-day search police called it off and announced it was a missing persons case. She has never been found.

Piripi Ratima (7 years) Barney Ratima (5 years) Stacey Ratima (2 years) Philip Fergusson Junior (14 years) Stephen Tepu (3 years) Baby unborn June 1992 An unemployed shearer, Raymond Wahia Ratima, (aged 25), clubbed and stabbed 7 family members to death, including his 3 children, his brother in law and sister in law who was 8 months pregnant. Police also charged him with the death of the unborn baby. Ratima was separated from his wife, (who was not killed), and had been under financial and marital stress. Ratima's mental status is unclear. Ratima was sentenced to ten years in August 1992, Parole eligibility from June 2002, strenuously resisted by family and others each time the next hearing November 2011.

22 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Aaron Schlaepfer (11 years) May 1992 On May 20, 1992 in Paerātā, south of Auckland, 64­year­old Brian Schlaepfer murdered his wife Jocelyn 55, his three sons Peter, 39, Karl, 33, and Darrell, 31, Peter's wife Hazel, 42 and grandson Aaron Schlaepfer 11. He then killed himself. Schlaepfer’s granddaughter Linda 9, survived the killings by barricading herself in a bedroom.

Sarah Curry (8 years) January 1992 Peter George Davis raped Sarah Curry before strangling her and leaving her body in a reserve on the side of Bluff Road on January 21, 1992. Davis, then 44, was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder and preventive detention for sexual violation.

Simon Reaney (7 years) April 1991 Anthony Lawrence Roma 25, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Simon and attempting to kill Simon’s 11 year old brother Michael and father Stephen. Roma stripped off all his clothes, walked into the home of complete strangers and beat the sleeping boys with a car jack on the 14th of April 1991 in Napier Hill. He breached his parole in 2004 and was arrested on a charge of committing an indecent act.

Delcelia Witika (2 years) March 1991 Two-year-old Delcelia Witika was bashed, burned and hit so hard that her appendix burst. She was left in her bloody cot to die alone while her mother and her partner went to a party. Delcelia suffered extreme physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. Her mother Tania Witika and partner Eddie Smith were both sentenced to 16 years imprisonment.

Rewa Ariki Bryson (11 years) Jasmine Amber Holden (11 years) Dion Raymond Jack Percy (6 years) Leo Wilson (6 years) November 1990 The massacre occurred on 13 November 1990. David Gray, 33, began indiscriminately shooting people in the township with a scoped semi-automatic rifle, after a verbal dispute with his next-door neighbour. He shot neighbours and a family visiting the township, killing thirteen people, including local police Sergeant Stewart Guthrie, first responder to the reports of a shooting. Gray was shot dead as he came out of a house firing from the hip. It is the deadliest criminal shooting in New Zealand history.

Robert Harlen (19 months) November 1989 Nineteen monthold Robert Harlen's mother was out for an hour. Her partner, Graham Ross Sperry, who was babysitting, was later jailed for Robert's death from injuries 'consistent with shaking'. The baby had also internal injuries. Sperry received a 3 year sentence.

Karla Cardno (13 years) May 1989 Paul Dally raped and murdered 13-year-old Karla in May 1989. He snatched the schoolgirl off her bike as she rode back home from the local shops and dragged her to his house, repeatedly raping and torturing her for 22 hours while her family frantically searched for her. Dally later put Karla - naked, bound and gagged - in his car boot and drove her to deserted Pencarrow Head, near the entrance to Wellington Harbour, where he buried her alive in a shallow grave. Dally was sentenced to life imprisonment.

23 | P a g e w w w . 4 t h e k i d z . o r g . n z Teresa Cormack (6 years) June 1987 Teresa Cormack had been sexually assualted and suffocated in a shallow grave. DNA testing 15 years later found Jules Mikus guilty on her abduction, rape, sexual assualt and murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, preventive detention for rape, 14 years for sexual assualt and 14 years for abduction.

Louisa Damodran (6 years) October 1986 Peter Joseph Holdem had just been released from jail for the abduction and attempted murder of a 10-year-old girl in the 1980s when he dragged Louisa Damodran off a street near her Bromley home on October 15, 1986. After abducting her he drove to the Waimakariri River where he strangled her and threw her in the river. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Alicia O’Reilly (6 years) August 1980 The 6-year-old was suffocated and raped in bed in her Avondale home by an intruder while her sister slept nearby. No one has ever been charged of this crime.

This list was compiled from hours of intensive internet searches and is by no means a complete list of all children who have passed. Many cases that end in the death of a child never make it to a public forum. Apologies are made for any errors please bring them to our attention.

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