{"id":507187,"date":"2026-07-03T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507187\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:24:07","slug":"devonport-toddler-death-mother-charged-with-manslaughter-after-child-dies-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507187\/","title":{"rendered":"Devonport toddler death: Mother charged with manslaughter after child dies on New Year\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services were called to a home on Kerr St in Devonport about 11pm on January 1 where they found the boy\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">A neighbour, who did not want to be identified, earlier told the Herald that she heard an adult and children swimming and playing in a pool at the property from about midday until 3pm on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI could hear kids jumping in the pool until about three, then it went silent. The owners were on Waiheke, we had no idea who the people were, and that\u2019s what is puzzling us all,\u201d she said in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Kerr St is a coveted, leafy address known for its mix of historic villas, cottages and character homes, close to the Devonport village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Another neighbour told the Herald at the time of the boy\u2019s death that the street was a tight-knit community where \u201ceverybody knows everybody\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were called to a home on Kerr St in Devonport about 11pm on January 1 where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28210,74,3952,1558,13239,2511,5972,634,133471,6179,7126,15035,6178,117,111,43,139,69,90,1523,10707,13835,102,1530],"class_list":["post-507187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-3yearold","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-child","tag-day","tag-death","tag-devonport","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-manslaughter","tag-mother","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-sons","tag-toddler","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507187","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=507187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}