Charges laid nearly a decade after Alestra Kepa-Hati's death

Another Māori child is dead, and again, two adults are in court charged with child neglect. Her name was Alestra Kepa-Hati. She was four years old when she died in Kaikohe in 2015. Now, almost a decade later, a 60-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman have been arrested and charged with four counts of child neglect. Three of those charges relate to Alest…