Police are investigating after a five-month-old baby was presented at Dargaville Hospital with serious head injuries. Photo / Dean Purcell
Police are investigating after a 5-month-old child was taken to Dargaville Hospital with serious head injuries.
Whangārei CIB acting Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Pilmer said the infant arrived at the hospital on December 28.
“The baby was flown to Whangārei Hospital and later transferred to Starship hospital in Auckland where they are making a good recovery.”
The investigation is continuing.
It continues a grim start to the year for Kiwi kids after multiple child deaths in the first week of 2025.
A 34-year-old man was charged with murder after allegedly killing a baby and trying to kill another child and a woman in Hamilton on New Year’s Day.
A special bedside court hearing was held for the man on Friday. He was granted interim name suppression.
The names of the baby victim, child and injured woman were also suppressed.
On Sunday, a child was allegedly murdered and their body left in a car outside the Manukau police station in Auckland early this morning.
A man, aged in his 30s, appeared in the Manukau District Court this afternoon, across the road from the station where police said he arrived and spoke to officers shortly after midnight, leading to the child’s body being found in a car parked outside.
The man wept during today’s brief appearance. He was granted interim suppression and remanded in custody.
In Southland, a 3-year-old died after being struck by a vehicle on a driveway on New Year’s Day at a residential address in Gore.
“Our thoughts are with the child’s family at this sad time,” police said.
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