Cheyenne Petersen

A drug-addled mother whose 18-month-old baby drowned after she deserted it in the bush could be out of prison in just 10 months. Natasha Dawn Petersen, 31, was sentenced last week to two-and-a-half years prison for the manslaughter of her daughter Cheyenne Petersen, whom she abandoned in dense bush on March 7 2007 while in a methamphetamine-induced psychosis. Under current parole laws, Petersen - who has nine previous convictions largely for drug offences - will be eligible for release from prison after serving one-third of her sentence. Source: 4theKids.

Everyone knows the tale of Hansel and Gretel - the Grimm story of two children taken deep into the bush at the behest of their wicked stepmother and left to die. In this children's classic, the pair found their way out and lived happily ever after. But there was no fairy tale ending for Cheyenne Petersen, just 18 months old when she was carried into the bush by her P-addled mother Natasha - and left to die. In the fable, the wicked stepmother died. In this grim slice of reality, where the drug P painted an ultimately fatal backdrop of fantasy and hallucinations, Natasha survived - but little Cheyenne didn't. She drowned in a shallow stream and, when her plump pink body, clad only in a T-shirt, floral pants and a purple stone necklace, was recovered by police it was obvious she had tried desperately to find her own way out of the thick bush near Whangarei Heads. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-drug-addled-road-to-childs-abando...

March 2017: Cheyenne Petersen, 1, drowned in a shallow stream after her mother Natasha Petersen carried her into the bush near Whangarei Heads and left her. Petersen, a P addict, was convicted of manslaughter. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/61-little-names-on-new-zealands-roll-...