Despite Receiving Four Reports of Concern Oranga Tamariki Closed File on Murdered Toddler
November 16, 2022
PHOTO: CHRISTEL YARDLEY/STUFF
Staff at the hospital where murdered toddler Comfort Jay Witeri-Thompson spent the first four months of her life were so worried by what they saw they filed a report to Oranga Tamariki.
But despite that report joining three other reports by people worried about the toddler before her death, the child protection agency closed its file on her in December 2017, apparently happy that her home was being tidied up and a heat pump installed.
Seven months later Comfort was dead, murdered by her mother, Southern Thompson.
Oranga Tamariki confirmed to Stuff, via an Official Information Act request, that four reports of concern were received about the toddler, who died in July 2018.