The mother of the toddler bashed during a Mongrel Mob attack on her partner says she is sickened by the $250 offer to her son and wants the gang member to apologise for his unprovoked assaults.
Yesterday, unbeknown to the victims' whānau, patched gang member Jury Te Nahu, 26, pleaded guilty to common assault on the boy's father and assault on the child. He offered the victim $250. Te Nahu was sentenced to nine months' supervision.
In May, the Herald revealed the Hawke's Bay three-year-old was covered in blood and bleeding from his mouth and nose following an incident at Cornwall Park, Hastings, where Te Nahu assaulted the boy's dad, also hitting the toddler who was in his father's arms.
The Hastings District Court was told yesterday Te Nahu had offered $250 so the boy could be taken on a trip somewhere. But the mum said the sentencing was not carried out under the tikanga of restorative justice, which includes kanohi to kanohi - face-to-face hui.
The mum said that the $250 payment was "news to me. I don't want his stinking money. He can't even apologise for his actions".