{"id":508213,"date":"2026-07-03T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508213\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:04:15","slug":"mother-charged-with-manslaughter-after-death-of-3-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508213\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother charged with manslaughter after death of 3-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 33-year-old mum has been charged with manslaughter following the death of her 3-year-old.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, Detective Inspector Aaron Pascoe said she had been charged in relation to an ongoing investigation into the toddler’s death on New Year’s Day in Auckland’s Devonport.<\/p>\n

Police were called to an address on Kerr Street about 11pm on 1 January where the child was found dead.<\/p>\n

“This is an extremely tragic case and as the matter is now before the courts, we will not be making any further comment.”<\/p>\n

The woman appeared in North Shore District Court on Friday morning and would next appear in Auckland High Court on 15 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old mum has been charged with manslaughter following the death of her 3-year-old. In a statement on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-508213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508213","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=508213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}