{"id":609067,"date":"2026-09-23T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609067\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:20:10","slug":"child-injured-at-southland-property-dies-teens-face-further-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609067\/","title":{"rendered":"Child injured at Southland property dies, teens face further charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A young child injured at a Southland property earlier this week has now died, with the two teenagers previously charged expected to face further charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to an address in Otautau at around 6.50pm on Sunday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/21\/two-charged-after-southland-child-suffers-severe-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the child taken to Southland Hospital in a critical condition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They were then flown to Starship Hospital in Auckland where they died this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Inspector Stu Harvey said this was now being treated as a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We know this tragic incident will no doubt be felt widely in the Otautau community, and police will be providing reassurance over the coming days,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police will also continue to support the child\u2019s wider family as the matter progresses through the courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The man and woman, both aged 19, who had previously been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to the incident are expected to face further charges, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Otautau is a small town on the banks of the Aparima River located around 40km northwest of Invercargill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young child injured at a Southland property earlier this week has now died, with the two teenagers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,15488,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-609067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-southland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609067","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=609067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}