{"id":65250,"date":"2025-10-08T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/65250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:58:15","slug":"baby-found-in-bin-woman-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/65250\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby found in bin: Woman pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/07\/03\/woman-charged-after-babys-body-found-in-auckland-wheelie-bin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pleaded<\/a> not guilty to interfering with human remains after the body of a newborn baby was discovered in an Auckland wheelie bin earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/07\/02\/newborn-babys-body-found-in-bin-in-aucklands-freemans-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found the body<\/a> in a bin on Renall St in Freemans Bay in July.<\/p>\n<p>Officers at the time described the death as a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing in Auckland District Court via audio-video link from Auckland Women&#8217;s Prison on Wednesday, the accused entered a not guilty plea by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the woman remained suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>She was remanded in custody, and was expected to reappear next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/575359\/baby-found-in-bin-woman-pleads-not-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has pleaded not guilty to interfering with human remains after the body of a newborn baby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-65250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65250","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=65250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}