27 Oct 2023

Government agencies tight-lipped over babies death in Lower Hutt

From Midday Report, 12:12 pm on 27 October 2023

Various government agencies remain tight-lipped over the death of a baby in the Lower Hutt suburb of Taita.

Two-year-old Ruthless-Empire Ahipene Wall's death is being treated as a homicide after a post-mortem showed he died from blunt force trauma.

Oranga Tamariki won't say whether it was involved with the whanau.

Police are releasing few details, except to say they are in contact with three family members who are of interest in the investigation.

And the Corrections Department isn't commenting on reports that a person living in the house was facing multiple violence charges.

Ward councillor for Taita Naomi Shaw spoke to Charlie Dreaver.