7-year-old Moana's future the focus after lengthy court battle
The couple who has spent four years looking after a young girl at the centre of a legal battle around culture say there are no winners in the case that has ended with them remaining her carers.
They say the focus can now lie where it should – on a 7-year-old for whom everyone wants the best.
When Moana was placed in the care of a Hawke’s Bay couple (the “Smiths”) in September 2018 her teeth were rotten, she had an untreated club foot and showed all the symptoms of a traumatised child.
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