Nevaeh Ager was brutally beaten to death by her father Aaron Izett in Maketu in March 2019. He and his wife called police about Izett's erratic behaviour and wanted their help to take their great-granddaughter - Izett's daughter Nevaeh Ager - out of the home. The great-grandparents of a little girl beaten to death believe she would still be alive if a police calltaker had acted on their desperate phone call for help, the day before the toddler was killed. Nevaeh Ager, 2, was found dead in an estuary near Maketu in the Bay of Plenty in March last year. Izett was also convicted of assaulting John Sturgess, Nevaeh's great-grandfather, in a heated confrontation the day before Nevaeh was killed.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 05, 2020 20:48 UTC