The man charged with seriously assaulting Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie in the months leading up to her death still denies the worst of the abuse as he gets set to be released from jail on Monday.
Information released to The Daily Post by the Parole Board shows William Warena Curtis, the father of Nia's killers Michael and Wiremu Curtis, was denied parole four times and will have served all of his four-year sentence by Monday. He will be released to a Hamilton address.
Nia died in Starship Hospital in August 2007 from head injuries suffered after being kicked in the head by the Curtis brothers. They were sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 17 years for the murder.
A police investigation discovered Nia, 3, had suffered months of abuse in the lead-up to her death, including two assaults daily from William Curtis when she lived in his one-bedroom James St flat.
Curtis, now 53, was found guilty of eight counts of assault between March and July, 2007, including one of assault with a weapon which referred to an incident when he tied a woollen scarf around her neck and dangled her in mid-air until her face turned purple.