Duwayne Toetu Taote Pailegutu

Tortured and killed by stepfather Johnny Pukerua Ioakimo Joachim; mother Mary Joachim (née Rikki) failed to provide the necessities of life [medical treatment]. Duwayne lived at Fergusson Street in Stoke, Nelson where he sustained "systematic torture" from stepfather Johnny while his mother did nothing. Six weeks before he died Duwayne sustained three broken ribs after a beating from Johnny. On 24 June, eight days before his death, Duwayne failed to bring his jersey home from school. This enraged Johnny who beat Duwayne so badly that he became partially paralysed and incontinent and was fitted with nappies as he slowly suffocated on the blood being inhaled into his lungs. Johnny tried to fix this by "exercises" in which he repeatedly punched Duwayne in the stomach to make him vomit up blood. The paralysis to the left side of Duwayne's body had been caused by repeated kicks to the right side of his head causing a subdural haemorrhage and stroke. For the kicks to his head, legs and upper body Johnny wore his leather shoes with heavy soles. There were also 10 deep bruises on Duwayne's scalp. In another attempt to "shock" Duwayne into movement, Johnny thrust his paralysed foot into boiling water, leaving the largest of four scald wounds on his right leg and a blistered foot. Frustrated that Duwayne still could not move, Johnny threw him against walls and a wardrobe. Over 75 extra bruises were found on Duwayne's body as a result of being hit, kicked and struck repeatedly on the hands and soles of his feet with a wooden cricket wicket. Duwayne was dead by the time Johnny finally called an ambulance. Source: https://debbiemccauleyauthor.wordpress.com/biographies/new-zealand-....

July 2008: Duwayne Toetu Taote Pailegutu from Nelson died as a result of head injuries caused by his stepfather Johnny Pukerua Joachim. The 7-year-old was beaten so badly that he was paralysed and slowly suffocating on his own blood. Joachim also hit the boy with shoes, causing deep bruising to the scalp and a cricket wicket. He admitting murdering Duwayne and is serving life in prison. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/61-little-names-on-new-zealands-roll-...

The full story behind the sickening abuse and murder of a 7-year-old boy has been revealed for the first time in court documents. One expert has called the killing of Duwayne Pailegutu by his stepfather, Johnny Pukerua Joachim, "systematic torture" comparable to that suffered by Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie. For the seven days before Duwayne Pailegutu died, he was kept inside his mother and stepfather's small flat in Nelson - so no one could see he had been beaten so badly he was paralysed, incontinent, and slowly suffocating on his own blood. The left side of his body was disabled after repeated blows to the right side of his head which caused a stroke, and he struggled to eat or drink. In addition to the haemorrhage, an autopsy found at least 10 deep bruises to his scalp - some of them inflicted by the shoes of his stepfather as the little boy cowered in the corner of his Fergusson St bedroom. A further 75 bruises were found over the rest of his small body. Duwayne, whose family members in Mangere say was a happy and energetic child before he moved to Nelson with his mother and stepfather in December 2007, was hit, kicked, thrown at walls and struck repeatedly on the soles of his feet with a cricket wicket by Joachim, 37, in what was to be the most violent assault of many he suffered, one week before he died. Duwayne's mother Mary Joachim, 28, was sentenced in the Auckland District Court on Thursday to three years in prison for failing to provide her son with the necessaries of life for watching the assaults and not getting medical attention. She is appealing against her sentence. Johnny Joachim is serving an 18-year, non-parole sentence after admitting Duwayne's murder. For the week before he died,Duwayne sat, partially paralysed and fitted with nappies, slowly suffocating on blood which he inhaled into his lungs as he vomited during "exercises" in which his stepfather made repeated blows to his stomach to make him cough up blood.In an attempt to "shock" Duwayne into movement, Joachim dipped his paralysed foot into boiling water, leaving the largest of four scald wounds on his right leg. When he became frustrated that Duwayne could not move, Joachim threw him against a wall. And for the six weeks before his death on July 2 last year, Duwayne had been living with three broken ribs. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/murdered-boy-endured-final-weeks-of-t...