GUILTY NZ - Nia Glassie, 3, tortured & beaten to death, Rotorua, 3 Aug 2007

[sherri79]

any 1 live in this area so we can hope for updates on the trial?

 

[MREG2]

Rest in peace, beautiful Nia!

 

[jacobean]

Im so sad to hear that Nia has died. I hope the murderers get the maximum sentence possible....

For those interested, i looked it up and there is no Death Penalty in NZ.

Rest in Peace Nia

 

[SewingDeb]

I guess we will probably have to look for our own updates. Not sure if we have any New Zealander posters. I am hoping that little Nia's case will change things for the better.

In one article it said that the Maori account for 60% of the chid abuse in the country.

I found this while looking up their culture:

[edit] Modern socio-economic issues
Māori are poorer on average than the rest of the population, and are at greater risk of many negative economic and social outcomes. Over 50% of Māori live in areas classed in the three highest deprivation deciles, compared with 24% of the rest of the population.[15] Although Māori make up only 14% of the population, they make up almost 50% of the total prison population.[16] Māori have higher unemployment rates than other cultures resident in New Zealand.[17] Māori have higher numbers of suicides than non-Māori.[18] Just over 50% of Māori pass NCEA Level One,[19] New Zealand's main secondary school qualification usually attained after 11 years of schooling. Māori also suffer more health problems, including alcohol and drug-related problems, per head of population than any other culture living in New Zealand.[20]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori

It sounds to me like they have many of the same problems aboriginal people have on many different continents. Poverty, drug and alcohol abuse and domestic abuse. I'm sure not all Maori have these problems but it does seem like there needs to be some kind of help to alleviate these problems. Nia's case might help bring about sorely needed change.

 

[SewingDeb]

Thanks Jacobean. I was afraid of that.

 

[Mygirlsadie]

Have any of you watched the movie called The Whale Rider? The people were from New Zealand and from the same tribe or whatever its called. Anyway I know it is just a movie but the male's in the movie treated the girl really mean ...anyway RIP little Nia at least those evil beasts can't ever hurt you again!!!

 

[dingo]

any 1 live in this area so we can hope for updates on the trial?

NewZealand is our neighbour and what happens there usually makes the news here so I will keep you updated as best I can.
Here is the latest news.
Mother wants mongrels to pay.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=274427

 

[dingo]

So mum didnt know any of this was going on ...me thinks mum is going into damage control or is ultra stupid.

 

[catswhiskers]

I know it's years since this all happened, but I have only just watched a documentary on youtube about poor little Nia. The details given about the prolonged abuse she was subjected to is just sickening and makes your heart ache. It seemed like her brief life was one of continuous torment, even though neighbours and other witnesses seemed to be aware of what was happening to the poor little mite.
The story tells of a history of abuse and violence that the adults themselves had grown up in. They honestly seem to be pretty low functioning intellectually and emotionally as well - lots of drug and alcohol abuse over a couple of generations.
This is hard to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hMb5Jgm0w

 

[giagreen]

Although Nia's injuries were initially thought to be life-threatening, she was yesterday out of an induced coma and her mother had bathed her.

Her mother bathed her? Bathing your child is a privilege...I'm just not sure this mother deserved to bath her daughter. I'm sick to my stomach.
Actually I know this mother doesn't have the right. As a mother I know exactly where my son is at all times. Who he is with and check on him when he is not with me. Yeah it's a mothers job to keep your child safe from people who will hurt them...yeah this mother doesn't deserve to bathe her daughter.
What blows my mind the most is I know there are sick people who hurt children. Yes it doesn't shock me anymore when I read of a child being hurt or abused as sad as that is. BUT FIVE PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT THIS AND ALLOWED THIS TO GO ON????? WTF!?!?!!! YUK People make me sick. Not even animals treat their own kind like this.

 

[giagreen]

I didn't read the part that Nia had passed R.I.P little Nia.
I hope each and everyone of these sick people and the mother get their butts handed to them.
I can only hope and pray there really is a hell so people like these abusers get real justice served to them someday.

 

[missy_g]

I know it's years since this all happened, but I have only just watched a documentary on youtube about poor little Nia. The details given about the prolonged abuse she was subjected to is just sickening and makes your heart ache. It seemed like her brief life was one of continuous torment, even though neighbours and other witnesses seemed to be aware of what was happening to the poor little mite.
The story tells of a history of abuse and violence that the adults themselves had grown up in. They honestly seem to be pretty low functioning intellectually and emotionally as well - lots of drug and alcohol abuse over a couple of generations.
This is hard to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hMb5Jgm0w

I started to watch this (got about 1 minute in..seriously) and had to turn it off after I saw them strolling in in their hoodies and smug faces. I don't get how people can abuse a baby. I also don't get how 5 people can abuse a kid at one time without one of them saying anything to make it stop.

I used to read articles on child abuse, murder etc. but then I had a baby, and I just can't do it anymore. I get WAY too emotional. Babies and children are precious. I don't know what any of them can do that is SO bad and SO terrible that someone has to beat them to death.

I know it's not the child, it's the abuser but seriously....take your aggressions and frustrations out on something else.

 

[catswhiskers]

I am in no way defending those involved, but it really was obvious that they were all impaired in some way, and appeared to have suffered dreadful abuse themselves, and were all poorly educated to boot. Getting all deep and meaningful here, but it seems like they had nothing at all of value or meaning in their lives, and the only way they could feel any power was to take everything out on this tiny powerless toddler. The father of one of the males involved was also charged as he lived with them at the time and also played a part in Nia's abuse, and he was a vile creature as well - horrible, horrible man who physically abused two generations.

The show I linked spent a lot of time focusing on the culture of violence and abuse that surrounded this poor little mite - very ingrained and inhumane.
Something that struck me was the fact that throughout, they only flashed one single photo of Nia - one that looked like it could have been taken by someone like one of those shopping centre photographers. Not a single other shot of her - I could be wrong, but I think that could say something about how much she was cared about or loved.

It was a really hard show to watch, and I know sometimes you just have to press stop, especially when your own children are still little. For those who can bear it, I almost feel people need to know exactly what poor little children like Nia go through. Just to be on their side or something, as well as to be aware that this type of happens (something people here on WS are very aware of I know).

This little girl was treated like an unwanted object or plaything by the people around her. What's worse, they all seemed to know no better - none of them seemed to show an ounce of compassion or remorse. Even her mother seemed utterly oblivious to the harm being done before and after Nia's death.

I felt the same about Keisha Weippart's case - how many of us would have reached out and gladly taken these little children if only we were allowed.

 

[Linda7NJ]

That poor poor little girl.


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[tiredblondy]

Bless her precious little heart. Play with the angels baby Nia!

 

[OkieGranny]

From September 2014:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11329799

Lisa Kuka, 41, was sentenced to nine years' jail in 2009 for failing to protect and provide the necessities of life for her 3-year-old daughter, Nia, who died in 2007 from head injuries.

Kuka was released on parole yesterday... There had been a backlash on social media this month when it was known she would be let out five years into her nine-year term...

She was also not to have contact with Michael Curtis, Wiremu Curtis, Michael Pearson and Oriwa Kemp - who were also jailed over Nia's treatment... Brothers Michael and Wiremu Curtis are serving life sentences for the toddler's murder.