Chris Kahui not guilty

[LilSel]

Its very sad... whatever happened... two little boys got taken too soon.

My sister is a nurse... a neonatal nurse... she looked after those boys in hopsital before they went home... she'd told me how gorgeous they were etc

I do hope that someone is held accountable for their deaths

[Katman]

I tend to imagine they're better off where they are now.

[Winston001]

Great discussion and pretty typical of the outrage most New Zealanders feel about this case.

Don't blame the police. Don't blame the justice system. Don't blame the welfare system.

At the core of this, a child is completely defenceless and the two people who will do anything to protect that child from harm are - the mother and the father. Chris Kahui and Macksyna King failed these children abysmally. And worse, at different times, abused and neglected these babies until they were dead.

Outside that, there is a whole family here who ignored the way these children were treated and did nothing. So much for the vaunted "whanau".

[Winston001]

There will not be a further trial. The police had to prosecute someone because two babies were dead from unexplained violence. The best guess they could make was Chris Kahui because he had the time and opportunity. But it was always going to be a hard case to prove beyond reasonable doubt.

The basis of the Crown case was that Ms King wasn't anywhere near the children around the time of the injuries - they'd have a damned hard job reversing that if they tried to prosecute her now, and they won't.

[candor]

And now the female the "mother" stays with tells the Herald she knows who did it, and it wasn't the parents (is she for real). Which leaves the 1 year old Kahui first accused or his Dad right? She should be put on the stand then jailed indefinitely for perjury if she refuses to give an ay or nay.

To me its not about accountability. The one thing our society can give those kids tho is the dignity of having had their killer identified. In silence they were abused, and still no end to that silence. It seems to be a family with no concept of a conscience. How well they played the media (defense lawyer included - has she been conned) with red herrings, diversions, and presenting the accused as a good bloke and the non accused as a witch.

But surely all of them can not be full fledged psychopaths.... someone will crack oneday. Maybe it was both parents. I know houses where families abuse (they think disciplin) the kids in the same ways eg heads through gib. Why could not 2 people have done this in the same way to 2 kids. Sometimes abusers like to make others into co-offenders as insurance too. Makes the truth real hard to find.