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# Face of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1931/
- Published: 2019-04-19T18:30:59.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-07T22:05:45.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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In a coma and weighing 45kg, Bruce Rangitutia was patched up and sent back to his carers. Seven months later, he was dead.

> Starving, unable to walk and so thirsty he had resorted to drinking his own urine, Bruce Rangitutia cried out to the couple charged with his care.  
> “Me hungry, me hungry.”  
> When his wh?ngai brother Jovander Terry and his partner Annie Mathews eventually roused themselves from the bed of their Tokoroa home on December 8, 2015 to check on the 55-year-old, who suffered from cerebral palsy and was intellectually handicapped, he was dead.  
> His death and the catalogue of suffering he endured in his last years all occurred under the noses of Waikato DHB, social workers and police.  
>  
> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/112080526/vulnerable-man-who-drank-own-urine-spends-last-hours-constantly-moaning-and-calling-for-food-and-water?ref=goodoil.news)