SIENI IKAMANU, TWO, WHO DIED IN AN AUCKLAND HOSPITAL IN DECEMBER 2010 AFTER SUFFERING BRAIN INJURIES AT HOME IN MARCH THAT YEAR. PICTURE: NEW ZEALAND HERALD. SUPPLIED
A FATHER killed his young daughter because she never smiled at him, a lawyer told a High Court jury.
Crown prosecutor Phil Hamlin told the jury that Ikamanu hauled Seini against a wall and then stomped on her because she never smiled at him.Kefu Ikamanu has pleaded not guilty in the New Zealand High Court at Auckland to the murder of his daughter Seini Unaloto Ikamanu, causing grievous bodily harm by breaking the girl's shoulder, and injuring with intent to injure by breaking her pelvis, NZ Herald reported.
She received fatal injuries as a result of the incident on March 24, 2010, 21 days before her third birthday.
"It appears Mr Ikamanu himself was not able to form a close bond with her. He became frustrated and angry with what he thought was the spoilt behaviour of his young daughter," Mr Hamlin said.
"He thought she never smiled at him and this made him angry.''
Seini had only recently been reunited with her family after living with her grandparents in Tonga for most of her life.
Seini was taken to Starship Hospital, Auckland, where doctors found extensive bleeding on her brain, a broken shoulder and a shattered pelvis.
The shattered bones in her pelvis were similar to a crush injuries doctors found in children run over by a car.
"The injuries she sustained were beyond what doctors could put right, although they tried,'' Mr Hamlin said.
Seini eventually died about eight months later from pneumonia which Mr Hamlin said was caused by the brain injury.
The hearing continues.
original:http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/kefu-ikamanu-allegedly-killed-daughter-seini-who-never-smiled-new-zealand-high-court-told/story-e6frf7jo-1226446162983
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