Wednesday 21 February 2024 | Written by Joanne Holden | Published in Court, National A Rarotonga woman who repeatedly slapped a 9-year-old girl about the head as punishment for stealing has been sentenced for assaulting a child. The victim sustained bruising, black and blood-stained eyes, slap marks, and a blood stain in her right ear at the hands of Tekura Vaevae Maurangi George after the child pinched $38 from a shop in Takuvaine, Justice of the Peace Tangi Taoro said.