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Kaitaia man charged with murder of month-old baby appears in court

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Four week old Maree Takuira Mita Ngahere died in February.

Four week old Maree Takuira Mita Ngahere died in February.

A Kaitaia man has appeared in court charged with the murder of four-week-old baby Maree Takuira Mita Ngahere in Kaitaia.

The man, 22, was granted interim name suppression when he appeared in Kaitaia District Court this morning charged with murder of Maree in Kaitaia on February 19.

The man also faces a charge of assault on a child in relation to a separate matter and is charged with assaulting a one-year-old in Manurewa between December 1 and January 16.

The man was remanded in custody by Judge Deidre Orchard to reappear in the High Court at Whangārei on March 21.

About 20 people sat in silence in the public gallery during the man's appearance and the arrested man was visibly upset in the dock.

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Maree died on February 19, with police reporting that her death was not accidental.
Results from a post-mortem indicated she suffered a brain injury and bleeding to her brain. There was also severe bruising on one arm and thigh.

Her death was the second death of a child due to non-accidental injuries in Northland in eight months.

In August last year, a 2-year-old died at a property in Mangawhai, resulting in a homicide investigation and charges being laid against a 30-year-old man.

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The man, the victim and the child's mother were granted name suppression, along with any information that could identify them.

On average, a child in New Zealand is killed every five weeks, putting the country high on the list of the world's worst offenders, according to a 2016 report.

Sixty-one children died as a result of non-accidental injuries in New Zealand between 2006 and 2016.

The New Zealand Police Homicide Victims Report 2017, released late last year, showed 686 people were killed by homicide in New Zealand over that period, with children under the age of 5 making up 12 per cent of the victims.

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