{"id":16245,"date":"2026-01-09T19:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16245"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:40:38","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-after-newborn-baby-dies-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16245","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway after newborn baby dies in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homicide investigation has been launched after the death of a baby boy in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>On 2 January, the 10-week-old baby boy was taken to Pukekohe Maternity Hospital in a critical condition, where staff alerted the police.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was transferred to Starship Hospital and died from &#8220;non-survivable injuries&#8221; on Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Karen Bright said a 27-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man have been jointly charged with ill treatment\/neglect of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Both will reappear in Manukau District Court on 8 May.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offenders and the baby have name suppression.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing and further charges are being considered, Detective Inspector Bright said.<\/p>\n<p>~ RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homicide investigation has been launched after the death of a baby boy in Auckland. On 2 January, the 10-week-old baby boy was taken to Pukekohe Maternity Hospital in a critical condition, where staff alerted the police. The baby was transferred to Starship Hospital and died from &#8220;non-survivable injuries&#8221; on Wednesday, police said. Detective Inspector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245","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=16245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}