A mother has been jailed after she went live on Facebook drinking alcohol and showing off her erratic driving that ended in a crash causing severe brain damage to her incorrectly restrained 12-week-old baby.
Rawinia Whyman, 33, formerly from Kawerau and then Auckland, appeared in the Rotorua District Court on Friday for sentencing after previously admitting 12 charges relating to a crash south of Rotorua on August 5, 2023 and subsequent unrelated offending in the five months that followed.
Whyman’s lawyer, Taria Ngawhika, asked a home detention sentence be considered, but Judge Paul Geoghegan said the fact Whyman broadcast her offending on social media as if it were something to be proud of was one of the strong reasons he had to send a deterrent.
He sentenced her to two years and six months’ imprisonment.
NZ Herald
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Judge Paul Geoghegan said the fact Whyman broadcast her offending on social media as if it were something to be proud of was one of the strong reasons he had to send a deterrent.
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