Here's a quick quiz. You are a child. Who is most likely to kill you. Your mum? Your dad? Stepdad? Rodney Hide says police have the answer.

Timaru police are speaking to a man over the alleged abduction of a 9-year-old boy outside his primary school last week.

A woman who claims she saw a man photographing children at a Timaru primary school just hours before a 9-year old boy was allegedly abducted will be interviewed by police.

A neighbour saw a "suss looking" man taking photographs outside a primary school hours before a 9-year-old pupil was abducted.

A man who subjected his newborn baby to months of torture, including biting through her earlobe, will not spend any time in prison.

The family of murdered toddler JJ say they can finally start the healing process after today's guilty verdict.

Rotorua mayor Kevin Winters doesn't know how Nia Glassie's mother can live with herself knowing her baby was so badly mistreated and killed.

Those twisting this saga have probably not given that any thought. Those with decency and empathy must - before more damage is done, writes Owen Jones..

Interviewed over the murder of toddler JJ, Joel Loffley told police any inconsistencies were due to shock and being under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

A court has heard police-intercepted phone calls between a toddler's mother and Joel Loffley, the man accused of the murdering the child.

The mother of a toddler allegedly murdered by her partner has told a court she didn't get the child medical attention for four days, even though he had a broken arm.

Little JJ didn't want to stay behind with his stepfather, and tried to follow his mother out of the house on the morning that the Crown says the child died.

A toddler who died after his pancreas and liver were split could not have received his fatal injuries from bouncing off a bed as his stepfather says, a court has heard.

Little JJ Lawrence died on a ripped and tatty bed with no mattress, in immense pain and allegedly at the hands of a man who terrified him.

The trial for a man accused of murdering Auckland 2-year-old JJ Lawrence by striking him so hard one of the toddler's internal organs split has started in the High Court.