{"id":14206,"date":"2025-07-08T05:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2025-07-08T05:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:11:15","slug":"three-month-old-baby-suffered-nine-fractures-to-her-body-in-hutt-valley-police-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14206","title":{"rendered":"Three-month old baby suffered nine fractures to her body in Hutt Valley, police reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-month-old baby suffered nine fractures, including to her ribcage, ankle and arm, police have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Wescott said on Thursday police were notified a three-month-old baby\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/top\/565845\/baby-girl-suffers-multiple-fractures-police-appeal-for-information\">had been brought to hospital by her family<\/a>\u00a0in Hutt Valley on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The baby girl had a broken arm, which appeared an unusual injury for such a young baby.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Do you know more? Email<\/i><\/b>\u00a0sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further examination has taken place at the hospital, which has identified multiple further fractures throughout the baby&#8217;s upper and lower body. Police are investigating the circumstances of how these fractures and injuries have occurred &#8211; we do not believe the injuries could have been sustained accidentally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Wescott said the baby had sustained nine fractures, including throughout her ribcage and a fracture to her ankle and upper arm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of these injuries occurred at different times, and Police are working tirelessly to find the truth about how the injuries were sustained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not believe that these injuries could have been accidental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The baby&#8217;s condition was improving, Wescott said but police continued to ask for anyone who knows anything to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information was asked to contact Police via 105, quoting file number 250614\/8509.<\/p>\n<p>You can also provide information anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-month-old baby suffered nine fractures, including to her ribcage, ankle and arm, police have revealed. Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Wescott said on Thursday police were notified a three-month-old baby\u00a0had been brought to hospital by her family\u00a0in Hutt Valley on June 14. &#8220;The baby girl had a broken arm, which appeared an unusual injury for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14208,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}