{"id":224458,"date":"2026-01-09T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/224458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:59:07","slug":"homicide-investigation-after-babys-death-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/224458\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation after baby\u2019s death in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>9 Jan, 2026 03:44 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police have begun a homicide investigation after a 10-month-old baby boy died in Auckland. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have opened a homicide investigation after a baby boy died in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 10-week-old baby was taken to Pukekohe Maternity Hospital in a critical condition on January 2, where staff alerted police, Detective Inspector Karen Bright said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The baby was taken to Starship children\u2019s hospital in Auckland, where it<br \/>\n         was found he had \u201cnon-survivable\u201d injuries.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTragically, the baby passed away at the hospital on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A 27-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man have been jointly charged with ill treatment\/neglect of a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 9 Jan, 2026 03:44 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,6794,72157,634,6179,305,8916,78,12898,111,43,139,69,1864,675],"class_list":["post-224458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-baby","tag-babys","tag-death","tag-died","tag-have","tag-homicide","tag-in","tag-investigation","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opened","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}