{"id":607981,"date":"2026-09-22T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607981\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:08:10","slug":"southland-child-found-badly-hurt-now-at-starship-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607981\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland child found badly hurt now at Starship hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child found\u00a0badly injured in the Southland town of Otautau is now\u00a0being treated at Auckland&#8217;s Starship Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>They remain in a critical condition at the children\u2019s hospital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old man and woman appeared in an Invercargill court on Monday, charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>Their names were\u00a0suppressed and they were remanded in custody until October 6.<\/p>\n<p>Crown prosecutor Mary-Jane Thomas told the court the\u00a0child was\u00a0unlikely to recover.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_top\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/crime-and-justice\/1520689\/badly-injured-southland-child-now-at-auckland-s-starship-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790064490_591_copy-of-rnz_banner-new_0-jpg.webp\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790064490_591_copy-of-rnz_banner-new_0-jpg.webp\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child found\u00a0badly injured in the Southland town of Otautau is now\u00a0being treated at Auckland&#8217;s Starship Hospital. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-607981","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\/607981","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=607981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}