The grandmother of a little boy left at the mercy of an angry man with a long history of violence says she wants her dead grandson's story to be heard and known. "We don't feel we have had a voice," the grandmother said, when Coroner Marcus Elliott invited whānau to speak to end the inquest. He told the inquest via his whānau: "I tried to help my baby, but no one believed me." The lawyer told the hearing the man believed "Oranga Tamariki didn't acknowledge complaints that he made because of who he was". The mother admitted she told CYFs the boy was never left alone with the man, when in fact he had been.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 23, 2022 05:03 UTC