Wainuiomata M¿kutu Lifting

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. During an October 2007 m¿kutu lifting (or exorcism) in the Wellington, New Zealand surburb of Wainuiomata, 22 year-old Janet Moses died and a 14-year-old female relation was injured. In 2009 nine members of Moses' extended family, all siblings of her mother or their spouses, were charged in relation to the event, one uncle and four aunts were subsequently found guilty of drowning Moses.The m¿kutu lifting and subsequent trial were notable for bringing makutu into the public consciousness in New Zealand and the large number of independent people who stepped forward to distance makutu lifting as they knew it from the events of in this case. Unprecedented media attention was paid to m¿kutu, m¿kutu lifting and M¿ori religion.