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A mate of a Child, Youth and Family youth worker alleges he saw naked images of a young girl on the man's cellphone when it was accidentally left at his house.

The "deliberate and forceful" kicking of Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie in the head which caused brain damage and ultimately her death was not an isolated event, a High Court jury was told today.

Jurors in the Nia Glassie murder trial at the High Court at Rotorua were urged today to give the three-year-old's mother "a fair go."

A former Christchurch bus driver has become the first person in New Zealand to be sentenced for sexual grooming of young people without being convicted of more serious sexual offending as well.

A Wellington father will face trial next year for allegedly assaulting his daughter during an argument over a mobile phone.

The trial proper of five people on charges relating to the brutal death of three-year-old Nia Glassie will get down to business tomorrow, when the Crown opens its case in the High Court at Rotorua.

A woman has told of the rough sex which characterised her relationship with Liam James Reid, now accused of two rapes, a murder and an attempted murder at a trial in the High Court at Christchurch.

Wellington District chief fire officer Jonathan Graham has lost his licence for six months after being caught drunk driving.

A Christchurch man who was convicted of snatching a 14-year-old girl from a bus stop and sexually violating her has lost a second bid to have the decision overturned.

A 15-year-old was infatuated and besotted with her 38-year-old Child, Youth, and Family Service youth worker and the pair embarked on a sexual relationship, the crown alleged in the Christchurch Di