Thursday, November 6, 2008.
Bangor Teen Charged With Underage Drinking While Babysitting (Washington TWP)
A Bangor teen was charged Monday after she threw an underage drinking party while babysitting at the home of a Bangor Area School District board member, police said.
Kelsey Speer, 18, was charged with underage drinking and furnishing alcohol during a party July 5 while she was at Steve Bussenger's township home watching his three children for the weekend, police said.
Babysitter Admits To Murdering Girl (South Auckland)
With her head hung low and tears running down her cheeks, Tiana Mary-Ann Kapea yesterday pleaded guilty in the High Court at Auckland to killing Jyniah Te Awa.
Jyniah died in September last year after a weekend of abuse at Kapea's hands, which included being kicked, hit on the head, smothered, thrown across the room and shaken with such vigour her head rolled back and forth.
Long Sentence Likely For Double Child-Sex Attack (Napier)
Richard Miller, 46, was found guilty in the High Court at Napier on six charges, relating to girls aged 6 and 10.
A jury yesterday found him guilty of committing an indecent act on the six-year-old in a car at Nelson Park on September 19.
He and the girl were seen in the car by volunteer community patroller Brooke Ibbotson, who followed it back to the girl's house.
Unemployed Miller, who frequently took the girl to and from school, was charged with committing an indecent act and an alternate charge of attempted rape.
The nature of the allegations triggered police to reopen claims of sexual abuse made against Miller in 1990 by a girl aged 10. Miller was her babysitter.
A Bangor teen was charged Monday after she threw an underage drinking party while babysitting at the home of a Bangor Area School District board member, police said.
Kelsey Speer, 18, was charged with underage drinking and furnishing alcohol during a party July 5 while she was at Steve Bussenger's township home watching his three children for the weekend, police said.
Babysitter Admits To Murdering Girl (South Auckland)
With her head hung low and tears running down her cheeks, Tiana Mary-Ann Kapea yesterday pleaded guilty in the High Court at Auckland to killing Jyniah Te Awa.
Jyniah died in September last year after a weekend of abuse at Kapea's hands, which included being kicked, hit on the head, smothered, thrown across the room and shaken with such vigour her head rolled back and forth.
Long Sentence Likely For Double Child-Sex Attack (Napier)
Richard Miller, 46, was found guilty in the High Court at Napier on six charges, relating to girls aged 6 and 10.
A jury yesterday found him guilty of committing an indecent act on the six-year-old in a car at Nelson Park on September 19.
He and the girl were seen in the car by volunteer community patroller Brooke Ibbotson, who followed it back to the girl's house.
Unemployed Miller, who frequently took the girl to and from school, was charged with committing an indecent act and an alternate charge of attempted rape.
The nature of the allegations triggered police to reopen claims of sexual abuse made against Miller in 1990 by a girl aged 10. Miller was her babysitter.
