28 Aug 2019

Mother of Ariah Roberts takes stand in murder trial

From Checkpoint, 5:43 pm on 28 August 2019

The mother of a Mangawhai toddler at the centre of a murder trial has described finding her baby girl limp and unconscious.

Aaron Archer is on trial in the High Court in Auckland - accused of murdering his partner's daughter, two-year-old Ariah Roberts in her home in August last year.

This morning her mother took to the stand to tell her version of what happened the night the girl died.

RNZ court reporter Anneke Smith was there.