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is what was send to me by a family friend. In the first contact with me,
the friend said that Cherish's mother had written something that the newspaper
would not publish:
"I found this site by googling Cherishsiliala
Tahuri-Wright which I do twice aday for her mum, I was shocked by finding
your page, and the continued lies told by Nofosione Wright, it is bad enough
we have to endure them in our news papers and now on the internet. Baby's
mum has done a story about her precious little girl, but
the papers aren't publishing why because it is
about Cherish no muck raking or damning stuff that others can use for sensationalizing
or lies it was all about Cherish"
My response to her was:
"Please send me her story and I'll read it and
post it on my site. I will tell her side. Please keep in mind, I
will update according to what news stories say. At first, I was only
able to find the one story and that's what I went off. I have just done
another Google search and see there is a lot more out there now. I will
be put the mothers story up on my site and I will read the new stuff as
well and do the update when I get home in four days. I am going
out of state for a doctors appointment and won't
be back until Thursday. I will be happy to put the story on my site.
Have a good day!
Sharon"
Here is what Cherish's mother wrote. I have posted
it here exactly as she had it written.
Cherishsiliala Tahuri-Wright
Was a beautiful little girl, loved to play on her
bike, with her dollies and hide and seek. Cherish lived with her mother
and saw her father sometimes.
She attended the Puna (playgroup), was bossy with
other kids (born leader) and got on with everyone, she was bright and clever
and loved to talk. Cherish had 2 lovely kittens she called Wuffy (Fluffy)
and popples (Bubbles).
Always had a smile, loved to pose for the camera.
She was the apple of her mums eye. Cherish love the colours Pink and Purple,
Butterflies and Fairies.
This young beautiful girl has had her life cut short,
I don't think we will ever know why, a person has been arrested and their
are suppression orders on the identity of this person for now.
Cherish went to Marton with her mum and uncle for
a holiday, when they were to return home to Porirua, Cherish stayed a little
longer to spend time with her grandparents and 3 year old cousin, and was
coming home to her mum on friday 13, but unfortunately she never arrived,
her mum tried to contact the grandparents but got no response. Her mum
asked Cherish's dad to take her to pick up Cherish she said no, he was
busy. Cherish's aunty bought a car so they could go and pick her up, and
they were going to go on the Wednesday or Thursday as the car needed a
little work, but by tuesday it was too late the new came of her being in
hospital with life threatening injuries and wasn't expected to survive.
By evening Tuesday 17th February 2009, Cherish arrived
by helicopter to Wellington Hospital, and underwent surgery, but there
wasn't alot the hospital could do the injuries were too severe. The Dr's
spoke with the family of their findings, and the family had to make the
decision on wither to turn off Cherish's life support. This was only after
extensive tests were done. By wednesday evening 19 February 09, Cherish
was fading away, the family knew that there was nothing else could be done
so made the decision to turn off her life support, this was done just after
midnight and Cherish passed away.
Please
click here to read something that was sent to me
by
a friend of Cherish's mother and see some pictures
she
also sent.
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