Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand

the frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listener discretion is advised.

This week's story is a listener's suggestion.

Thank you to Andrew I for bringing to my attention all the children will discuss over the next two episodes.

When I started, I thought this would be a shorter bonus episode.

But as I dug, to truly give these children the attention they deserve,

it's going to take me a couple

of full-length episodes, which I will be bringing you today in their next Sunday. I also haven't

included the murders of newborn boys, Chris and Kruke are who are in these stories. That is one that

will have a standalone episode at some point in the future. If I can bring myself to do the research and

write about it, I don't know. It is really horrid what was done to those boys. And we have

discussed some of the most horrendous incidences of child abuse and murder out of New Zealand,

with three-year-old Nia Glassy and only last week with Moko. But of course, Nia and Moko are just two of the many cases occurring in

New Zealand. And every time there is public outrage, but surprisingly nothing much changes.

There are more than 100,000 family harm incidents a year in New Zealand. And those are just

the ones that get reported. That's one incident every four minutes. A child killed

every five weeks. When does attend? That's a question none of us can answer, but to one thing is

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