Nia Marie Glassie was a three-year-old girl who was violently abused and eventually killed by her mother's boyfriend and his brother in Rotorua, New Zealand. Her death in 2007 sparked a high-profile criminal investigation and subsequent murder trial, and caused major outrage throughout the country.
By the end of 2008, Nia's mother Lisa Michelle Kuka was found guilty on two counts of manslaughter, and Kuka's partner, Wiremu Curtis, and his brother, Michael, were convicted of murder. The Curtis brothers were given life sentences.