{"id":477897,"date":"2026-06-15T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477897\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:18:12","slug":"blenheim-baby-found-dead-police-confirm-infant-found-on-roadside-was-stillborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477897\/","title":{"rendered":"Blenheim baby found dead: Police confirm infant found on roadside was stillborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe would like to ensure she is safe and can receive any appropriate treatment or support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe would also like to discuss options with them around the baby\u2019s remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Police suggested anyone with information call 105.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Shortly after the infant was found local iwi, Te R\u016bnanga o Ng\u0101ti Rarua, laid a r\u0101hui on the area \u201cacknowledging the people involved in the event, who were indirectly impacted, and so we\u2019re here to support them as well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe all come together and share the load and the burden in terms of this,\u201d Te R\u016bnanga o Ng\u0101ti Rarua pouwhakahaere\/chief executive Shane Graham said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe don\u2019t even know the baby or the father or whoever\u2019s been involved, but it doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t have our responsibilities to provide that manaakitanga and that support to them, because it\u2019s in our patch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe would like to ensure she is safe and can receive any appropriate treatment or support. \u201cWe would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6794,17184,7800,29861,690,1874,12518,685,16256,4486,111,43,139,69,90,675,1314,49612,5659,6102,108816,6736],"class_list":["post-477897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-baby","tag-blenheim","tag-body","tag-confirm","tag-dead","tag-found","tag-infant","tag-last","tag-marlborough","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-police","tag-road","tag-roadside","tag-say","tag-side","tag-stillborn","tag-was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477897","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=477897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}