12 Aug 2013

Woman accused of killing child before court

12:01 pm on 12 August 2013

A woman accused of killing her child in September last year is before the High Court in Wellington at a hearing to determine her fitness to enter a plea.

The woman, whose name and other details are suppressed, was arrested and charged in September last year after a dead baby was discovered wrapped in a towel, in a garden at a property in Lower Hutt.

Justice Kos has suppressed all further details of the hearing.