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Kōrero: Child abuse

Death through abuse

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A run-down house with a child at a window with a woman reaching up to him.

This is the house lived in by seven-year-old Henry Wain, who died in 1883 through a combination of parental abuse and neglect. His father and stepmother were convicted of his manslaughter. In this recreated scene a woman is handing bread through a window to a fictitious Henry Wain, watched by another concerned woman at the fence on the right.

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Toitū Otago Settlers Museum

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Bronwyn Dalley, Child abuse – Rates of child abuse, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/30525/death-through-abuse (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Bronwyn Dalley, i tāngia i te 26 April 2011.