 Wainuiomata mākutu lifting

In October 2007, 22-year-old Janet Moses died and a 14-year-old female relative was injured during a mākutu lifting (or exorcism) in the Wellington, New Zealand suburb of Wainuiomata.In 2009, nine members of Moses' extended family, all siblings of her mother or their spouses, were charged in relation to the event.