{"id":10635,"date":"2024-07-09T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:51:06","slug":"injuries-of-4-year-old-alestra-kepa-hati-in-weeks-before-her-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10635","title":{"rendered":"Injuries of 4-year-old Alestra Kepa-Hati in weeks before her death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have revealed a four-year-old child who died in Northland almost nine years ago had suffered a broken arm, broken pelvis and two separate head injuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-half photo-right four_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--iNSxi1Du--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_576\/v1720482853\/4KNBC9O_SUP090724ALESTRA_jpg\" alt=\"Four-year-old Alestra Kepa-Hati's death in 2015 was treated as unexplained at the time but is now under police investigation.\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Alestra Kepa-Hati\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/521255\/historic-death-of-northland-girl-under-investigation\">reignited their investigation<\/a>\u00a0into the October 2015 unexplained death of 4-year-old girl Alestra Kepa-Hati last week.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Natalie Syddall, of the Northland CIB, said Alestra&#8217;s injuries occurred in the two weeks before her death, when she was living with caregivers in rural Kaikohe.<\/p>\n<p>Northland police were continuing to speak to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/521394\/police-speaking-to-two-people-over-death-of-4-year-old-alestra-kepa-hati\">two people of interest<\/a>\u00a0to the investigation, but wanted to hear from anyone who had seen Alestra, or had any involvement with her or her two younger siblings, after 28 August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to information gathered so far, that was the last day the pre-schooler had been seen by anyone other than her caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>At that time she was said to have been uninjured and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Syddall said injuries like those suffered by the four-year-old did not just happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is likely someone knows something or has seen something and that&#8217;s why we need the community&#8217;s help. It&#8217;s been nearly nine years since Alestra&#8217;s death. Allegiances change over time, and now is the time to do the right thing by this innocent child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Syddall said information could be provided in person at a local police station, or by calling the 105 reporting line and quoting file number 151003\/8395.<\/p>\n<p>Information could also be passed on anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have revealed a four-year-old child who died in Northland almost nine years ago had suffered a broken arm, broken pelvis and two separate head injuries. Alestra Kepa-Hati\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Supplied Police\u00a0reignited their investigation\u00a0into the October 2015 unexplained death of 4-year-old girl Alestra Kepa-Hati last week. Detective Sergeant Natalie Syddall, of the Northland CIB, said Alestra&#8217;s injuries occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10637,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions\/10637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}