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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-949/
- Published: 2024-04-13T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-13T04:11:52.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Crime, Culture, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Police did not issue a press release when Creedence died and his death went unreported by media; there was none of the usual [public outrage](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300998907/57-kids-in-seven-years-our-shocking-child-death-toll?ref=goodoil.news) that comes when a child dies by violence.  
>  
> Following questions from *Stuff* earlier this month, police confirmed they had launched a homicide investigation after Creedence’s death. \[…\]  
>  
> \[Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Neilson\] explains that, initially, the death was treated as “unexplained”. When the investigation escalated, the family was already co-operating and public assistance wasn’t required.  
>  
> “Police acknowledge public notification of the death being treated as a homicide would have been appropriate.”  
>  
> Tapara, 21, says police have indicated to her that a manslaughter charge will be laid, although she hasn’t heard from them in a month. \[…\]  
>  
> In a Facebook post in February, Bell-Toetoe \[Creedence’s father\] wrote: “I ain’t no murderer. I’ll show you, hahahahaha. Full stop, come at me. Yous wait, I don’t need nothing.” \[…\]  
>  
> \[Tapara\] was cradling Creedence in her arms at the time and they were in the   
> kitchen. She is “pretty sure” the baby’s head hit the fridge when she   
> was shoved.  
>  
> She laughs nervously as she describes the event and minimises the push, almost suggesting it was her fault.  
>  
> “It was an accident. My partner didn’t mean to like, yeah, do that really. I shouldn’t have been in the middle with him \[Creedence\].  
>  
> “They don’t believe us at all, the police, they think one of us did it on purpose, but we didn’t, it’s an accident.” \[…\]  
>  
> In January, Tapara had her second baby, another boy. By that stage [Oranga Tamariki ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/301001586/jehan-casinader-oranga-tamariki-stopped-uplifting-children-is-this-what-we-wanted?ref=goodoil.news)was involved with her family, and insisted the baby go into the care of a close family friend.  
>  
> “They were like, ‘We don’t believe he’ll be safe in \[your\] custody’.”  
>  
> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350240705/baby-accidentally-fatally-injured-during-argument-mum-claims?ref=goodoil.news)

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