The Rotorua woman accused of murdering her infant son while the country was in level 4 lockdown last August, can now be named as Melody Mamaengaroa Ngawhika​. “His mother, the defendant Melody Ngawhika, was holding him in her arms and she held his face firmly to her shoulder until he suffocated and died,” Gordon said. “I’ve done it, I’ve suffocated my baby.”DOMINICO ZAPATA/FAIRFAX NZ/Waikato Times Melody Ngawhika’s murder trial is taking place at the High Court in Rotorua. Gordon said a post-mortem revealed Elijah’s cause of death was asphyxia. Ngawhika’s lawyer, Fraser Wood, also raised infanticide in his brief opening address, also telling the jury there is “no dispute Ms Ngawhika killed her son”.

Source: Stuff November 21, 2022 05:58 UTC