By: solutionz@xtra.co.nz
26/11/2008
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Let this only grow, by the names that I have missed........
âIn memory of those innocents taken from us over the period 1990-2008 in the hope, that the disgrace of accepting this in our midst, will motivate us all, to truly care, enough that we render all possible protection to those who are our future.â
1990
Robert Harlem 19 months old. Died of injuries consistent with shaking, and internal injuries.
Graham Ross Sperry, jailed for his death.
1991
Delcelia Witika, two years old, bashed, burned, split appendix, left in her cot to die while her mother and her motherâs partner went partying.
Both were jailed for manslaughter.
1992
Craig Manukau, 11 years old. His mother tuned the radio volume up full, to drown out the noise while his father kicked him to death.
1994
Jordan Ashby, 3 years old. Found by baby sitters to have bruises and a black eye, that a doctor declared, were consistent with him having fallen from his bike, before Phillip Rakete, his motherâs boyfriend, beat him to death.
1995
Veronika Takerei-Mahu 11 months old, after CYFâs ignored claims of abuse, and social workers opted not to tell the court of the fears of a public health nurse, the childâs father, beat her to death.
1997
Jaydon Perrin, 10 months old. Died of massive head injuries while in the care of his mother Leanne, and her boyfriend Aron Vercoe. Both were charged with murder, but were acquitted.
1997
Tichena Crosland, 3 years old, was taken by CYFâs from the care of her mother Moana Whakamarurangi and given into the care of her father, David Crosland three months before she died of traumatic head injuries and with a badly damaged *** . David Crosland was found guilty of murder, but not rape.
1999
James Whakaruru, 4 years old. 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 motherâs boyfriend, Benny Haerewa who was out ... |
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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.
2000
Hinewaoriki (Lilly-Bing) Karatiana-Matiana, on her second birthday. Died in her cot from cerebral swelling after being shaken. She had bruising and lacerations to her genitals.
She was at the time, in the care of two of her aunts, while her mother was out partying.
Her two aunts were convicted and jailed.
2000
Mereana Edmonds, 6 years old. Beaten to death by her mother Belinda, and her lover Dorothy Tipene. She was found to have 3 very serious brain injuries, and 30 cuts, bruises and abrasions. Among her torment was being trown into an outside shed for the night after wetting her bed.
Her mother was sentenced to 8 years, and her partner, for her part, just 27 months.
2001
Saliel Aplin 12 years old, and her half-sister, Olympia Aplin, 11 years old, killed in a knife attack by their stepfather. He was sentenced to 25 years, non-parole.
2003
Tamati Pokai, 3 years old, was beaten to death by his foster father after the child brought home a packet of jelly beans from kindergarten.
2003
Kelly Gush, 12 years old, ws kicked to death by his motherâs partner after he vomited up his dinner.
2003
Coral-Ellen Burrows, 6 years old, who in spite of warnings to CYFâs by her birth father, was knocked unconscious, and beaten to death by her stepfather while driving her to school, because she said she didnât want to go to school. He dumped her body.
2003
Rocky Wano, 15 came home for Christmas. His father angered at finding him drunk when called to pick him up from the local Marae, kicked him to death.
2004
Tangaroa Matiu was beaten to death with a fence paling by his stepfather, for soiling his pants. His mother ... |
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By: rorybremner@ymail.com
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| Hey, brave thing to post, well done. |
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By: solutionz@xtra.co.nz
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His mother denied strangling or choking him to death.
2006
Ngatikaura Ngata, 3 years old, beaten to death with weapons for soiling his pants. His mother and stepfather were both sentenced to 8 years for manslaughter.
2006
Chris and Cru Kahui, tiny premature twin boys, just weeks old, but in otherwise reasonable health, killed by a person or persons as yet unknown. Raised in an overcrowded house with just one legitimate income. A place of drinking, drugs and fighting, everyone with one exception, supported by benefits.
2007
Jyniah Te Awa, 10 months old, killed by her baby sitter and family friend Tiana Kapea, who was in November, 2008, sentenced to 17 years.
Baby Jyniah was among other torturous exposures, tossed into a deepfreeze as punishment for something unexplainable that only babies, less than a year old can be guilty of. She was also beaten and swung by her hair, and in similar fashion to another case on these pages, was hung on a line by her âTâ shirt.
2008
Nia Glassie, 3 years old, murdered by her motherâs boy friend and his brother.
Her mother, Lisa Kuka was found guilty of manslaughter and her boyfriend Wiremu Curtis and his brother Michael Curtis, were both found guilty of her murder.
Tiny Nia had been subjected to being thrown against a wall, pegged to a clothes line and having i swung until she flew off, being used to practice wrestling moves, such as being slammed and dropped on, and being placed in a rotary clothes drier with it turned on.
2008
Dylan Hohepa Tonga Rimoni 3 years old
Middlemore Hospital staff notified police on Wednesday that a child with unexplained head injuries had been brought to the hospital by ambulance late the previous night.
He was later transferred to Auckland's Starship Hospital, where life support was turned off
âClose Call- Or Was It? We may never know because of name suppression.â
2005
An unidentified 2 year old boy (Identity still suppressed) died after being t ... |
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By: solutionz@xtra.co.nz
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âClose Call- Or Was It? We may never know because of name suppression.â
2005
An unidentified 2 year old boy (Identity still suppressed) died after being thrown against walls, forced to eat dog faeces, and beaten, died from abuse and injuries consistent with violent abuse.
Harley Wharewera, 19 was jailed for 10 years, and Jeremy Tawa, 23 was jailed for 2, after the beating to death of this tiny child. His mother, Jill Tania Tito, who knew what was happening was sentenced to 18 months jail. She will be out by now, and probably already a mother again. |
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By: karri.r@xtra.co.nz
26/11/2008
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Thanks for these Solz, and if this is not proof of how we forget, nothing is - I am ashamed to say I read some of those names and thought "oh yes I forgot about her/him"
This is why I feel so strongly they must be remembered by something more than headlines. |
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By: reesnailz
26/11/2008
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| working in a childrens ward. I can NOT for the life of me grasp how any one can ABUSE kids this way!!!! IT HAS TO STOP! |
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By: nivah5
26/11/2008
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Solutionnz I am in tears reading this and feeling very physically ill - how can these monsters do this to poor little innocent children - what is so disturbing is how many of the cases involved multiple abusers - you would think, hope even that one of them would have a tiny shred of concience somwhere... I do not understand what drives these people to do these hideous things...very scary and very very sad...our beautiful little children should never have to suffer such horrific trauma...they have been failed by so many and it has to stop.
I think your idea for a memorial is a fantastic one! Thank you for having the prescnce of mind to do something :) |
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By: nana_mac@rocketmail.com
26/11/2008
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Well done sol :)
Reading this makes me very sad but it also makes me angry. When my daughter was born she was very much loved and well cared for but still she died (cot death). These parents and 'care givers' you mentioned don't deserve that role. |
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By: nivah5
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Hey I've just had an idea Solz...
I wonder if they would consider a moments silence at the Christmas in the Park events...they could roll the list of names on the big screen?? |
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By: danteemma16
26/11/2008
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I cant stop crying. imagining something like that being done to my lil boy makes me wanna leave work and cuddle him. I'm in tears at my computer, but thank you solz, for bringing this to my attention, I'm gonna do all I can now to stop it. we shold all stop it. god i am angry and so so upset.
R.I.P you little angels, no more shall you suffer at the hands of those who were supposed to care and love you.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox |
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By: b.abclt@ymail.com
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| Totally ... Me too how easy it is too forget .. |
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By: solutionz@xtra.co.nz
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I agree, I'm a big, supposedly hard a.r.s.ed. guy, but the emotions well up even in these normally dry eyes. Bugger! They have seen some terrible things thse past 60+ years....but the mind's eye while putting this record of our shame together, became all a little too much.
There are sickening similarities in these. Broken families is perhaps the most obvious, and we have just endured 9 years of social re-engineering that deliberately broke down the family strength, and made us, by declaration of the demented, a secular society, in other words, non- Christian, and even though not all of us are believers, those who are are deserving of our respect for their views and beliefs, and the strength it gives them, but that too was destroyed, or almost. The number of fatalities by this means during those last 9 years is of concern, and the nuber attended by 'Partners' and others outside of a marriage situation is yet another.
Booze, and drugs are another.
It has to stop. The perpetrators of these crimes can never see themselves as anything more than human vomit.
I once likened a critical fellow to the drunken bum he hounded, but for one thing....that one drink that would bridge the gap between the two...why I will be copying pubs and clubs at least with copies of the final list, is so that the last thing they see leaving the pub or club or liquor store...is a reminder of that line, and just how thin it is |
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By: nivah5
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| Maybe we should put this info on the beer / alcohol bottles too...just like the stuff on cigarette packets :) |
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By: karri.r@xtra.co.nz
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| Solz, have you thought of putting pictures by the names on your list for distribution? There are bound to be a few pictures on the net of the victims and would have even more impact possibly? |
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By: nana_mac@rocketmail.com
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We need a license to drive a car or to own a gun. We have sex education in our schools, advertising campaigns warning of the dangers of drinking and driving. There is budget advice available freely to all but there is something missing.
Parenting a child is the most important role yet where is the education for that? What exams have to be sat? What license do we need? |
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By: nana_mac@rocketmail.com
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| Pictures ... great idea karri :) |
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By: mikehunt77@ymail.com
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| dont forget the little girl shot in a drive by.....i fit her into this lot too |
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| Mikehunt ... Jiha ... whanganui ... |
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By: solutionz@xtra.co.nz
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| karri Matey....no I hadn't thought of photographs....I wouldn't be up for that. The written is bad enough for me...but feel free, and all the best. |
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By: dodgey33
26/11/2008
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My name is Chris
I am three,
My eyes are swollen
I cannot see,
I must be stupid
I must be bad,
What else could have made
My daddy so mad?
I wish I were better
I wish I weren't ugly,
Then maybe my mommy
Would still want to hug me.
I cant do a wrong
I cant speak at all
Or else im locked up
All day long.
When im awake im all alone
The house is dark
My folks arent home
When my mommy does come home
I'll try and be nice,
So maybe ill just get
One whipping tonight.
I just heard a car
My daddy is back
From Chariles bar.
I hear him curse
My name is called
I press myself
Against the wall
I try to hide
From his evil eyes
Im so afraid now
I'm starting to cry
He finds me weeping
Calls me ugly words,
He says its my fault
He suffers at work.
He slaps and hits me
And yells at me more,
I finally get free
And run to the door
Hes already locked it
And i start to bawl,
He takes me and throws me
Against the hard wall
I fall to the floor
With my bones nearly broken,
And my daddy continues
With more bad words spoken,
'Im sorry! ', I scream
But its now much to late
His face has been twisted
Into a unimaginable shape
The hurt and the pain
Again and again
O please God, have mercy!
O please let it end!
And he finally stops
And heads for the door
While i lay there motionless
Sprawled on the floor
My name is Chris
I am three,
Tonight my daddy
Murdered me
And you can help
Sickens me to the soul,
And if you read this
and dont pass it on
I pray for your forgivness
Because you would have to be
One heartless person
To not be effected
By this Poem
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By: ghostboy666@xtra.co.nz
26/11/2008
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The thing I don't get is why you would do this to a child. They are the most innocent and pure thing on this planet and then people go ahead and do the most pharked up sh!t to them like putting them in a deepfreeze chest freezer or put them in a tumble dryer.
It seriously makes our beautiful country look like the worst place in the world to live and it makes me ashamed to call myself a New Zealander and human when these things happen.
My heart goes out to all the families who have been affected by this. and RIP to those beautiful angels whos lives got cut short, may you feel no more pain and may you be in a better place.
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| well put dodgy..Seth...I've sent it on |
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By: danteemma16
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| dodgey :,( |
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By: berty.germ@xtra.co.nz
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Jeziz, pretty bloody moving posts here. Never believed it could have gotten so bad. Solz, I don't mind you emailing me a copy. I'll do my best with it. You know, just reading between the lines, don't you think that anyone picking up the DPB should be checked out rondomly, a couple of times a year, to
1) make sure they actually exist
2) that their kids are alive and well and being looked after
3) as someone suggested once before here, that DPB be allocated out but in food vouchers, and any retailer caught redeeming them for cigarettes or booze gets a bloody big red sign on their doors prohibiting them from redeeming vouchers at all
we just have to do something about this. |
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