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Police are investigating how a two-month-old baby girl fighting for her life in Auckland's Starship Hospital received head injuries.
The baby's parents are from India and are Muslim, a Sunday newspaper reported. They took the child to Middlemore Hospital on Friday and she was transferred to Auckland Hospital the same day.
Her two-year-old sister was taken into the care of Child Youth and Family.
Police have interview ed the 29-year-old father and 24-year-old mother from Otahuhu and are continuing to investigate the case.
There have been a number of high-profile child abuse cases this year which occurred as the public debated controversial child smacking laws.
Court cases are continuing in the case of the death of three-year-old Nia Glassie, who died in August, and three-month-old South Auckland twins Chris and Cru Kahui, who died last year of serious head injuries.
More than half of the 91 children who were the victims of homicide in New Zealand between 1991 and 2000 died at the hands of their biological parents, a book published in December said. About 6 per cent died at the hands of strangers.
- NZPA
