The brothers convicted of murdering 3-year-old Nia Glassie by subjecting her to months of abuse, which included putting her in a tumble dryer and spinning her on a clothesline, will be sentenced this morning.
Wiremu Curtis, 19, and Michael Curtis, 22, were found guilty of murder after a four-week trial in the High Court at Rotorua in November.
Nia's mother, Lisa Kuka, 35, was found guilty on two manslaughter charges relating to a lack of protection and failure to seek medical help for her critically-injured daughter.
Kuka was Wiremu Curtis's partner at the time of the abuse.
Nia's cousin Michael Pearson, 20, and Michael Curtis' partner Oriwa Kemp, 18, were found not guilty of manslaughter in relation to the death but were found guilty, with the Curtis brothers, on various other ill-treatment charges.
