A Rotorua man accused of assaulting a 9-month-old baby has made his first appearance in court.
The 21-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, appeared in the Rotorua District Court today and did not enter a plea to a charge of recklessly wounding a child. A charge of assaulting a child had been withdrawn and replaced with the reckless wounding of a child charge.
The case was called before Judge Chris McGuire and the accused was represented by Wiremu Te Are.
Judge McGuire consented to continued interim name suppression until his next court appearance, when the issue would again be discussed. Police did not oppose name suppression on the grounds of protecting the victim's identity.
The accused was remanded on bail until February 4, when lawyer Harry Edward would become his assigned counsel. Bail conditions included non association with two people, and not to be around children under 16 without being supervised by an informed adult over the age of 20.
