Nevaeh Jahkaya Whatukura Ager

2019 (March 21): Ager, Nevaeh Jahkaya Whatukura, 2016-2019 The body of two-year-old Nevaeh was found by police face down in the estuary behind her parents Tio Place house in Little Waihi weighed down by two big rocks. Nevaeh had sustained multiple bruises and abrasions to almost all her body caused by a weapon or weapons (70-80 blows) before she was left to drown by her father Aaron George Izett (38). Regular methamphetamine and cannabis user Izett was naked and brandishing a pitchfork at police, stomping his feet and waving his arms around and blowing a whistle while standing in a large puddle of water and petrol in his driveway before Nevaeh’s body was revealed by the outgoing tide. A jury found Aaron guilty of murdering Nevaeh, and two other assault charges in November 2020. See: New Zealand Herald (26 March 2019) | Otago Daily Times (5 November 2020). Source: © Debbie McCauley https://debbiemccauleyauthor.wordpress.com/history/tauranga-moana-m....

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