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Shane Claude Roberts case: Jail for manslaughter of Rotorua baby
11 Feb, 2021 10:20 PM
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Shane Claude Roberts, (left), was found not guilty of murdering Rotorua 10-month-old Karlos Stephens but guilty of manslaughter. Photos / Andrew Warner, File
No one knows exactly how a 10-month-old Rotorua baby died a violent death, but the man responsible for inflicting the fatal injuries will spend six years and five months behind bars for killing him. Shane Claude Roberts, 61, appeared in the High Court at Rotorua today for sentencing after being found guilty last year by a jury of Karlos Stephens manslaughter. The jury found Roberts not guilty of the baby s murder.
Roberts faced just one charge: that between November 29-30, 2014, he murdered Karlos Stephens.
Stuff also revealed in the wake of Roberts’ conviction for manslaughter that he was deemed a “safe person” by a social worker, despite them being aware of an indecent assault conviction and the previous uplift of his own three children.
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Shane Claude Roberts will spend the next six years behind bars for the 2014 manslaughter of a baby. On the opening day of the trial, Crown Prosecutor Anna McConachy told the jury of six men and six women that Karlos and his twin brother had been entrusted into the care of Roberts and his family as their mother, Pamela Stephens, was struggling to cope.