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[birds chirping]
[Gail] Oh. I can still see it...
Beautiful girl.
She was quite a sickly baby when she was born.
She ended up being an asthmatic child,
but when she became a mum, she was a beautiful mum,
absolutely beautiful mum.
Always smiling,
she'd always wave, "Hi Auntie," you know.
[child laughing]
Just what happened to her is so sad
you know, it still hurts today,
it'll probably hurt forever what happened to Janet.
-...and your pappa. Hello.
- You know one day maybe the girls are gonna ask us
and we haven't got an answer.
What do you say to two beautiful girls when they ask you,
"What happened to our mommy?"
[gloomy dramatic music]
[crying]
[Gail] They were a nice family.
We all went to the same school together,
played together, we did things together you know.
I was quite close to some of Janet's aunties
on that side.
I'm still in shock a bit, that they let this happen.
That they went that far
to try and heal her.
[indistinct police radio chattering]
[Tusha Penny] It was shortly after five p.m. on a Friday
when outplace communications center had a call
requesting that police attend
at an address in Wainuiomata.
My name is Tusha Penny,
I was a detective sergeant in Lower Hutt,
second in charge of the operation.
[dog barking]
What we could never have appreciated
when we first walked through the door
was that what was about to unfold
was something incredibly unique,
something incredibly tragic,
and something very challenging.
[crying]
Whenever you work on any case, any case at all,
it's a privilege, you have a really big job to do
and we worked very hard to understand
how a family could do that to one of their own.
[crying]
There were conflicting stories about how Janet had died.
Although some of the family members
had said she had actually died hours earlier
and from a mental illness or sickness.
It was a matter of trying to unravel what had happened,
trying work back.
We talked to an excess of 70 people,
we let them tell their story.
One person saying it probably doesn't have a lot of weight,
but when a whole lot of people
are telling you the same story
then there's something in that.
[interrogator] Take a seat.
What can you tell me about making a promise?
[girl] A promise is... being truthful
to the person you made the promise to.
[interrogator] So do you promise me everything
we talk about in this room today will be the truth?
[sniffles]
Yeah, if I can remember.
[interrogator] So what I'll get you to do
is just read card out aloud please.
I Glenys Wright do sincerely and truly declare and affirm
that I will tell the truth
during this interview here today.
I John Tahana Rawiri
sincerely and truthfully affirm
that I will tell the truth in this interview here today.
[Phil Mitchell] This family
cooperated fully with the police.
My name's Phil Mitchell, I was defense council,
tasked primarily with researching the case.
They genuinely believed there was something
very malignant and dangerous within her.
[Grant Burston] You can't just
act on bizarre beliefs and kill someone
and nothing's done about it.
My name's Grant Burston, it was my responsibility
to lead the team of Crown prosecutors
who conducted the case against
the people charged in relation to Janet's death.
[interrogator] What have you come to talk to me about today?
[girl] Things that happened last week.
[interrogator] What?
[girl] About Janet Moses.
[interrogator] Should we start there?
I'm just...
from the 21st when we were at... the Palisa Hotel.
[party music]
On Saturday night there was a 21st function
for Janet's sister at the Palisa Hotel in Wainuiomata.
[Phil Mitchell] You have close families
but this was extraordinary.
A close-knit family might be a family
that gets together for lunch every Sunday, but these people,
they lived together, they had their own family sports team,
they socialized together.
I can remember numerous times during the trial
people saying they're best friends with their cousins.
They did everything together.
[crowd chattering]
Janet had a very difficult time
in the weeks leading up to her death,
it would seem to be a complete and total change in her.
And Jan was just... sitting,
gazing at the wall.
She didn't look right.
[Dr. Rees Tapsell] This was quite a shock
to everybody around her,
it seemed to have come on very quickly.
My name is Dr. Rees Tapsell,
I'm a consultant forensic psychiatrist
and I'm also of Maori origin
and have through my life been involved in the... interface
between particularly psychiatry and cultural practice.
Janet had a very close and loving relationship
with her grandmother
and her grandmother passed away relatively recently
and she'd also had some fairly major stresses
in terms of a relationship.
And I think the combination of those things
are likely to have put a huge amount
of pressure and stress on her.
[interrogator] Who is Shane?
That's Janet's partner,
they've been together for around nine years I think.
[interrogator] Tell me about him, about him that night.
- Hello my darlings. - [baby crying]
Come on we'll go.
I'm just gonna hang out with the boys for a little bit.
[Janet] Come be with the kids.
[baby crying]
[Shane] Bye Louise.
[baby crying]
[Phil] She learned of an infidelity with her partner
and after that she became very withdrawn.
[baby crying]
[interrogator] Did you drop Janet off somewhere?
We went over to Jan's aunties
and we ended up staying the night there.
[ominous music]
[Janet] They're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming,
they're coming, they're coming.
[mumbling]
[woman] Jan.
Jan?
Hey, come on, come back inside now,
come on, you're okay.
[Glenys] Our girl was in danger,
we decided to take her down to my brother Johnny's
and get the family together for a hui,
to discuss her, why she's not acting right.
[indistinct chattering]
Hey, you, come here.
They I think had regular family meetings
to discuss anything that popped up,
which is quite a lovely traditional way,
I mean maybe it's the way we all were generations ago.
And unfortunately the grandmother had died
and she had been a great matriarch of this family
for a long time and she would always take charge
in situations like this, but she wasn't there.
[interrogator] At those meetings is there someone
who is in charge or does the talking, how does that work?
Yeah, that's John, he's like the head of our family.
[Glenys] Everyone put their ideas together,
to work out what the problem was with Jan.
Normally she's happy go lucky, yeah.
We all knew something was very wrong.
Something deep.
[girl] She didn't have no tears or nothing,
she was just sitting there and as hot as she was
she still wouldn't take off her jacket.
People were just coming up to her saying,
"I'm sorry if I hurt you in any way," stuff like that,
"We're all here for you, we all love you," and everything.
[interrogator] And did Janet talk at the meeting?
She was just staring at the ground and stuff.
[disorientating chattering]
- [water pouring] - [ominous music]
It's very difficult to be certain
about what was actually happening to Janet,
but all of the evidence that I saw
suggested that she was becoming psychotic
and that she was having extreme changes in her mood.
It's very common for people
to incorporate the things that others are saying
and the things that others are doing into your psychosis
and that reinforces for people around that person
the way in which they might have understood that behavior.
[woman] It might be depression.
[disorientating chattering]
[Rees] You can imagine then how it's very easy
to get in a bit of a vicious cycle.
But it's important to remember
that whilst I might have a particular medical paradigm
of the way in which I view and approach mental illness,
not everybody shares that paradigm.
[Pouroto speaking in a foreign language]
is my ancestral mountain.
[speaking in a foreign language] is my tribe.
[speaking Maori language] where I live.
[speaking Maori language]
and Pouroto Ngaropo was my name.
I've had the privilege and honor to be a cultural advisor
to the prime minister of New Zealand,
the very honorable Helen Clark.
You can only run so far from a spiritual world
and from a Maori point of view...
we are both spirit, [speaking Maori language]
and human, [speaking in a foreign language].
Over the last 200 years
there has been a process of colonization
where a lot of our own beliefs and values
have been replaced.
It's important to hold fast to traditional Maori beliefs,
Maori culture, Maori customs and practices,
in particular... Maori spirituality.
Those that are believers, those who have the knowledge
and recognition and respect for the spiritual realm
know there are things in the spiritual world
which are positive
and there are also spirits that are of a negative nature.
[heavy breathing]
[interrogator] What else was talked about at the meeting?
[ominous music]
There was a lion statue
which had actually been stolen several weeks before
from the Greytown Hotel.
[girl] Jan's sister, she had taken it off
from Greytown, which was a lion, a white lion.
- It's so heavy. - Oh it hurts my muscles.
[Heather Kavan] My recollection was is
that they stole the lion
because they thought it would be a meaningful symbol
to have decorating the house.
John had a tattoo of a lion,
the lion in fact was one of the family symbols
and a symbol of their sports group.
My name is Heather Kavan,
I'm a lecturer at Massey University.
I research extraordinary religious experiences.
I made a study of the Moses manslaughter trial
and felt a connection with the case
because I was raised on Wainuiomata
and Wainuiomata is a place, well it's suburbia,
it's surrounded by three hills, very cutoff,
but there are pockets of intense spirituality.
[speaking in foreign language] My name is Tamati Cairns,
I'm from Wainuiomata or resident of Wainuiomata
and have been since 1981.
I used to deliver the social work program back home.
At one particular session we had Hohepa Kereopa,
took us down to the little stream in Waymanner, he said,
"Choose a little stone," he says,
"Now name your stone around someone
or something special in your life."
So we all did
and then Hohepa conducted traditional karakia
I named my [speaking in a foreign language]
after my [speaking in a foreign language],
who's in this photo, [speaking in a foreign language]
and after karakia he said,
"Well, if your heart is where you decision was
and you believe in the power of karakia,
then that stone is now a
[speaking in a foreign language].
In the case of the lion Janet believed
that there was something wrong.
That condition is in the eyes of the believer.
Not in our interpretation and translation,
or what we think it is, it is what it is.
[Tusha] Family members accompany Janet
to the small flat in Wainuiomata
which was actually the home of her grandfather.
[girl] We set up the bedroom for Janet to sleep in,
but she didn't want to sleep in there
and she slept in Karl's bed in the lounge.
[screaming]
[door creaking]
I was brought up to know about spirits and all of that,
but how I was brought up, when you take something from
[speaking Maori language] or wherever it was taken,
yes she would be hit, something will happen to you,
but it always hits the weakest.
And because Janet being
the sickly one out of all of them,
yes, it would have hit Janet.
[phone ringing]
-About midnight Alene rang,
says we've got to get 'round to Dad's
'cause sister Ollie, or Janet's mom,
she was starting to get scared.
[crying]
[Janet] No no no...
No no no...
- We were up all Sunday night with her.
- They contacted an uncle, Jimmy Rahi,
a tohunga, a Maori priest if you like.
[Grant Burston] The prosecution didn't question
the calling in the tohunga.
It was entirely appropriate in Maori culture.
Tohunga is the medium
between the spiritual and the physical,
the axis mundi.
It's like consulting the pastor of a church.
They would trust absolutely
in the tohunga's advice given them.
That advice was, you know, was like cause root.
[speaking Maori language]
It was only until Jimmy came out
that were told that it was...
makutu.
[spooky music]
[interrogator] Tell me about the curse,
what do you mean when you say the curse?
It's...
like a Maori curse.
It kind of makes you... mentally sick I think it is.
It's kind of hard to explain.
[speaking Maori language]
Makutu is not something
that might be regarded as an oddity,
it is simply part and parcel
of a Maori understanding of life.
[speaking Maori language]
In traditional times makutu
was used as a means of protection
or a revenge mechanism
if someone had killed or hurt your family.
[speaking Maori language]
It's really cursing them and damaging their soul,
their mind, their heart and who they are.
It's extremely difficult
for a Pakeha New Zealand European person
to get information from Maori
about makutu
but I did manage to find one piece of information
which is a PHD thesis written by Clive Clinton.
Maori told him that they often thought
that white Pakeha doctors
misdiagnosed makutu afflictions
as psychiatric illnesses.
[interrogator] What happened next?
[speaking Maori language]
Blessed her with water, you know like a church christening
and the karakia to ward off the evil.
[speaking Maori language]
[Glenys] You never talk about this sort of thing, you know.
In 1814 our ancestors were introduced to Christianity
and only in the Bay of Islands
and now that's become sort of one of the ways
in how our people see our own concepts.
There was a whole shift away
from the spiritual structure of Maori society
and now we are confronted
with makutu,
how well do we understand actually what's happening.
[speaking Maori language]
And what is it that we're doing
to ensure we have the right advice
around us?
At this point Jimmy Rahi had a revelation,
a revelation
that would change the course of events dramatically.
He said that he had a vision of three claws and Janet.
He advised the family
that they had to return the stone lion to Greytown
because it had a mate there that was missing it
and that it was very important that they were reunited.
[John] Jimmy said
the lions had been together for over 100 years.
[interrogator] And what did Jimmy do?
I think he blessed the [speaking Maori language]
and he said the lion had to go back.
[speaking Maori language]
A spiritual possession is a very serious matter,
it's a life and death thing, isn't it?
The tohunga's role is to protect life,
to look after the spiritual and protect the family.
[chanting in a foreign language]
[spooky music]
[calm piano music]
[Tusha] So the following day on a Tuesday
there was a convoy, about eight or nine vehicles
went over to the Wairarapa from Wainuiomata,
back to the Greytown Hotel.
From that point on many of them
didn't in fact even go to work for a week,
they were with her all the time, they kept watch over her,
they were dedicated to her welfare.
Janet was there, Jimmy Rahi was there, Janet's namesake,
her paternal grandmother was there,
we know that because there was an incident
that alarmed a lot of people.
[ominous music]
[John] Janet.
No no no no no no no no no no,
no you, no you, no you, no you, no no,
you shouldn't even be here.
What're you doing here?
[mumbling]
- No no no no. - Come on girl calm down.
No no no no.
[John] Calm down, are you alright?
- When this car stops I'm gonna kill you. - [John] Janet!
When this car stops I'm gonna kill you,
I'm gonna kill you. [shouting]
[Janet] I'm gonna kill you!
[screaming]
[Janet] I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna kill you.
- [crying] - [screaming]
[gasping]
[interrogator] And what happened over at Greytown?
We had parked outside of a pub
[sniffles]
...and we walked around the back and the lion was taken out.
[religious singing]
[speaking Maori language]
In the spiritual domain of Maoridom
it's all about goodness and love, not about death.
It's done now girl.
[Pouroto] I believe within my heart
they would know within their family...
You're alright girl.
[Pouroto] ...that through the power of prayer,
through the power of goodness,
all these curses can be lifted.
[Phil] Apparently in the hours that followed she improved,
everyone felt like there had been quite a weight lifted
and things were going to improve from that time on.
We came back to Wainilly from Greytown
and I think everybody went to Karl's
and then we had feed of-- of fish and chips.
[indistinct chattering]
[laughing]
The tohunga said to them, "Well, you know,
I've done what I can now,
you've returned the lion and she looks much better."
I think this is one of the tragic turning points
of what happened.
[speaking Maori language]
[woman] What Uncle's been saying is that Janet's...
Out of the three things that were in her,
I think two of them was to do with the lion
and the last one was to do with...
her... Shane.
It had to do with her partner
and she was getting mental and verbal abuse from him.
Uncle Jimmy said that he'd done his part,
but he wouldn't do the relationship with Shane part,
that was for the family to do.
[speaking Maori language]
Unfortunately some scheduled medical treatment
required the tohunga
to be hospitalized for a number of days
so that took him away from being able
to be brought back in to help the family
when things didn't go well.
[Gladys] We were a close family
and we'd always get together to solve our problems.
And the people who've passed on
are always there to guide you.
[group] ♪ Go with peace and love ♪
Addressing the demon that they believed was inside her,
they said over and over and over again.
♪ Go with peace and love ♪
Coming, they're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
The money, the money, the money.
That's that's that's that's
that's that's that's that's that's that's.
[group] ♪ Go with peace and love ♪
[Gladys] She was trying to tell us something,
it was like a jigsaw,
trying to put the pieces together to work it out
and then when we did, it would write itself out.
♪ Go with peace and love ♪
[group reciting] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
[Gladys] Lord Jesus we have come together in your name
and it is written that whatever we ask shall be given.
We ask for complete and full healing for Janet Moses.
We ask this in your name, Jesus,
thank you lord.
We have received your blessings for this child...
[group] ...and love.
[Glenys] ...amen.
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
[Glenys] Everyone to do their waters
and clear themselves first
before the karakia.
Then in the middle of the circle
surrounded by everyone holding hands,
saying the karakia.
Jan's waters to be done.
[group] Go with peace and love.
- Drink it. - [group] Go with peace and love.
This family had a long association with water,
they had rituals of which they'd learned
from their grandmother and they used to talk about,
I can remember during the trial,
they would talk about doing their waters
to safeguard themselves.
[Glenys] Everyone must believe in their heart
that this will happen,
not just in their heads or saying the words,
it takes just one person not to believe in their heart
and it will not work.
But they all seemed to do it
and the defense generally was
she consented
to being involved in this process
and they, the participants genuinely believed
that what they were doing was to help her.
[Grant Burston] But this is a family that
deeply respected their elders
and who's Janet to question
that they're doing what they're doing in her best interests?
They didn't ask or consider the question
whether Janet was consenting.
[haunting music]
[Phil] She could have said, "No, I don't want any part of this."
From time to time she was sitting outside
having a cigarette with her cousins.
She could've just got up and walked away.
And she didn't.
[Heather] There were two Janet's,
there was the Janet who went outside, had a smoke break,
was happy to go back inside when it was time to start again
and then there was the Janet who screamed, she yelled.
There were two Janets
so who do you decide is the one that consented.
No no no no no.
- [screaming] - No no no no no.
[screaming]
No no no no no no no.
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
No no no no no no no no no no.
[groaning]
Get out, get out of her!
You leave her alone. You cannot have her!
[woman] Go with peace and love.
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
[Viv] My name is Viv Bebbington
and I live right opposite the house.
I could hear everything, chanting inside and stomping,
boom boom boom boom, over here you know?
It was deafening here.
[group] Go with peace and love.
[Viv] Mind you there's so many people, it was apes there,
that place was chocker, man,
but some of them couldn't get in.
[speaking Maori language]
One of Janet's paternal relatives suggested,
"Let's get in another tohunga."
The Rawiri family didn't want to do that.
[Gail] Certain one's weren't allowed
at the place where Janet was.
Certain one's weren't allowed in,
I'm talking like ministers and all of that, I mean why?
These people could've helped.
[Viv] When John come past, he said,
"I'll keep my daughter company," he come past,
they wouldn't let him in the house,
it's bloody sad because John would've got other help
I'm sure, I'm sure, he would've got other help.
[man] I'm not a minister but I'll normally do that,
address people who are sick, that's why I went up there,
but a lot of it was,
they weren't too sure what was happening.
A lot of people want to know more about their...
[speaking in a foreign language], culture?
[man speaking off mic]
They want to know more about their culture.
But they don't know the language
and they don't know the protocol
and they think they can just do this, they're gonna do that,
if you don't know, well you do it the wrong way,
well, that's what happens.
[ominous music]
Wednesday evening things really started to intensify
within that flat.
[Heather] There's mixed testimony
over why Janet wanted to be in the shower.
One theory is that
because she frequently showered her grandmother who died,
she wished to, you know, go back and recreate
that nostalgic experience for herself.
When Janet got up,
she'd head to the shower,
she turned it on, hot you know,
and I turned it back to cold.
[Janet screaming]
[girl] They were saying that was our weapon kind of thing
against the demon.
Was cold water.
- Keep the water cold. - [screaming]
Keep it cold, no no no girl.
We love you girl, it's all good, it's all good.
- [screaming] - Come on, we love you girl.
[screaming]
- You could see the blackness rising up from her eyes,
and they would...
just get real big.
[screaming]
[Glenys] Don't fight, don't struggle, we love you,
stay under the cold, that's it.
[interrogator] But who said,
"Evil spirits don't like cold water?"
[eerie music]
-She did come right,
spit up all this mucus.
- It was wiped up with-- using a towel
and then it was decided that the makutu was on the towel
and that no one else could use the bathroom
where the toilet and shower were located.
[Grant] Out came the vomit, out came the demon.
The purpose of the water,
then turned from the purification of the body
to an instrument to cause vomiting and so it escalated.
[Shane] Janet, Janet!
Where did, [mumbling]
[interrogator] So Shane was around.
Did Janet want to see him?
Nobody had asked her.
She couldn't make decisions for herself.
Come.
[Shane] Janet.
Jan!
Janet!
[Glenys] He was part of the problem.
[Shane] Janet!
[mumbling]
That's what we've been doing as a family,
to keep him away from her, to get her well again.
She don't want to see you.
We're taking care of your shit.
[shouting]
You don't need to be here.
[spooky music]
[Phil] It started a downward spiral if you like,
the family lacking any sort of external contact.
It was so closed and...
insular and suffocating.
Look at her eyes,
look at her eyes.
Janet?
[speaking Maori language] You lie down, come on girl.
Whoever wasn't in there for that
at that time will never understand.
Come on girl, come on, come on.
[crying]
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
Just imagine the pressure, the fear, the anxiety,
the panic that comes down
to your-- actually-- you know,
your love for that person
to stay there and to endure it.
[group chanting] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
These people were so sleep deprived,
some of them hadn't had sleep for four, five days.
- [group] Go with peace and love. - [stomping]
Go with peace and love.
[Viv] They was carrying on doing their thing.
All of us here
were used to the quietness of the place,
not all that noise.
[group] Go with peace and love.
[Viv] But what can you do?
No one called the police, pull the curtains, and you know...
I've seen enough, that's it.
[Glenys] I said we needed to get together again as a family.
Some of us hadn't seen our children for...
two, three days.
It was about a dozen of our babies.
Me and Jan's mom,
we tried to make them comfortable.
[John] She kept wanting to go to the shower.
Something was saying the evil spirits wanted hot water.
She didn't like the cold water really.
[Glenys] Drink it girl, come on.
You will not give in to this
[speaking in a foreign language]
[shouting]
[screaming]
Throw it up, girl.
We were in there with her for ages,
felt like bloody hours.
[shouting]
The power was so strong
and here's us fighting it.
[screaming]
[knocking]
And the father was there, him too.
[screaming]
[ominous music]
[shouting]
[gasping]
You gotta get out.
Do you know who I am?
I was so exhausted when I came out of there.
It seemed to go on for ages, yeah.
But then suddenly she-- she just came back,
good as gold.
With the Janet of old.
Good as gold.
You need to come home with me.
[Heather] Several times Gerald Moses asked Janet
to leave with him.
He vowed that he was going to return the next morning
and collect his daughter
regardless of her reluctance to leave with him.
[Glenys] When things calmed down,
we got our baby back in the bed,
and we tried to pacify her
even though we knew she wasn't right.
Everyone was crying,
we were so relieved that she'd calmed down.
We let her get some rest.
We felt that she was coming back to herself.
We sat around waiting for her to wake up.
And she'd wake up,
walk around,
go back to sleep.
Janet changed again.
I went to sleep
and when I woke up it was a catastrophe.
[mumbling]
Hey Janet, you alright, Janet?
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
John!
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming!
[Heather] It was at that point
Janet made quite a large change.
She said that she wanted to lay down her life for her family
to sacrifice herself during...
this immanent battle.
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming,
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
[shouting]
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
[shouting]
- What happened? - [shouting]
[screaming]
[Janet] They're coming, they're coming.
They're coming, they're coming.
[shouting]
[screaming]
They're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
[shouting]
Leave us alone.
[shouting]
[girl] She had a necklace like a bone carving
that she got from her nan.
They were saying that... the demon
was getting all its strength from the bone carving.
Johnny, get the scissors.
[coughing]
Okay, just-- no, come on, just a moment,
you'll feel better come on.
Come on.
Come on you'll feel better, come on, come on.
That's it.
[John] Lie down, come on.
Get some water.
[coughing]
Yep, come on Janet, some water, drink some water.
[moaning]
[Glenys] Come on, come on.
[John] Come on. This is good for you, alright?
[moaning]
[John] That's gonna clean it out, come on.
- One more. - One more.
[coughing]
[woman] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
- [John] Give me some water. - [group] Go with peace and love.
- [John] More water.
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
The children had no access to the bathroom,
in fact nobody had any access to the bathroom.
When people needed to relieve themselves
they did so into... diapers and nappies and towels
and just into... the clothes that they were wearing,
so it became an increasingly...
strange behavior.
- [group] Go with peace and love. - [crying]
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
[Glenys] Come on Jan, come on baby, come on.
[group] Go with peace and love.
We love you, we're gonna get it from you now.
Come on girl, good girl, have a bit more.
[groaning]
Go with peace and love, come out from her now!
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
[girl] It was initially Janet that was fighting him.
It was the demon inside of her...
and... the demon was like pretty feisty and everything.
I can remember her saying...
like...
"Fuck this."
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
You know we kept thinking it was Shane
that was doing this to our niece.
He said, "no no it was that lion."
It was revenge for splitting them up.
[Heather] The room was intensely hot, a furnace.
[Grant] Everything by this stage was drenched.
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
Water was rising in the kitchen
so I stuck steel and put a hole in the floor.
[group] Go with peace and love.
Go with peace and love.
All the eyes of our children were going strange,
evil,
and you could see all these things racing around in them.
You've got something in your eye
and it's racing around in there.
How would you get it out?
Without putting your hand in there to grab it out?
[group] Go with peace and love.
Some of the people were thinking to themselves
we should take Janet to a hospital,
but they weren't the leaders.
To even think about saying,
"stop, this might not be right,"
they felt they couldn't do it
because if they did well then perhaps they too
were gonna be cursed
and they might end up in Janet's position.
It is the power of the group and what's happening.
I think evil was in each and everyone of us
'cause we were doing things we wouldn't normally do.
And then they made a rule
that you weren't to look into Janet's eyes
in case you too became possessed.
[interrogator] And was Janet talking?
Did she say anything?
There was one part where...
Janet goes,
"Auntie stop, just let me have a breather."
[interrogator] Then what happened?
[girl] They were doing Joshi,
trying to make him, spit up all the yucky stuff in him
then I remember they did it to Les, did her,
and then I remember...
they... done it to me too.
I don't feel like they were trying to hurt us.
They would've had their reasons.
Get off me it hurts, fuck off!
[crying]
[Heather] They continued on with the teenage girl for hours.
She finally broke free at the same time
that Janet also managed,
with half a dozen people holding her down,
to break free.
However the group interpreted this as
the makutu... doubling its strength
by unifying the teenage girl and Janet
and so these young women who had broken free
were pulled back.
[dramatic piano music]
[Glenys] She became the second lion from Greytown
and it was her and Janet... working together.
These were... sensible people,
they worked, played sport and lived great kiwi life.
Everyone just got caught up in it.
Hysteria is not an uncommon state.
Most of us at times have felt a bit hysterical
and world history is littered with examples,
where very very extreme things are done
on the basis of a set of beliefs
that to many might not make any sense.
[Heather] I think what's going on here
is what would happen to any of us
if we were stuck in a room over five days
with no sleep having little to eat, rhythmic chanting,
40 degree heat, stomping, intense fear,
I think we would all go berserk in that situation.
This is... the human condition.
[Glenys] I know most people won't understand.
Makutu is evil.
You have to find a way of putting it right,
to get the person back to normal again.
I wish I had someone
who could relate this to the police, 'cause...
I'm finding it very hard to do on my own.
[dramatic piano music]
[Grant] The mechanism in dying through drowning
on dry land or through a motion in water is the same.
The water gets into the lungs,
that causes the membrane in the lungs to froth up
and produces a frothy liquid
that gets absorbed further into the lungs
that collapses some of the air sacs.
That compromises the ability
to circulate oxygen in the body.
Vocal chords go into spasm,
the heart goes into abnormal rhythm,
she swallows her tongue.
[Heather] At one point her jaw locks
and instead of thinking,
"Perhaps we've gone too far,"
participants thought that...
her jaw had been locked by the makutu
to stop them from getting even more water into it.
So they pried her jaw open...
and...
died.
[interrogator] So when did you realize that Janet
was getting to the point where her body was passing away?
I didn't.
[interrogator] When did you notice she'd passed?
I still didn't.
We were just trying to get the other girl right.
The whole place was full of evil.
I tried to do CPR.
I'm glad I know how to do it.
Then I turned to my wife...
"I love you darling."
Because I thought, yeah I was meant to go too.
Yeah.
Because I've been... a leader for the family,
and I thought they'd get me too.
Jan was on the floor,
there was all my brothers and sisters around,
trying to bring her back to life.
We were trying to work out if it was in the house.
All of the children...
This makutu was in the house.
[crying]
[Heather] As soon as they realized Janet had passed,
they amped up the efforts on the teenage girl.
[screaming]
Get out of there you will not have her.
You will leave, you will leave her alone, you get out.
[Heather] They've lost one, you know,
- ...don't need to lose another. - You will leave her!
That went on for some hours after Janet had died.
[screaming]
You get out, you get out!
Come on, come on girl.
I was actually scared.
I said, "You're scaring me,"
and then she said,
"Well you're scaring me."
Yeah, they were trying to hold down my arms
'cause I was like scratching
and punching and kicking people.
[interrogator] And how come you tried to do that?
I think it was 'cause of the demon inside of me.
I just went pretty psycho.
[interrogator] Did you say anything?
I can't exactly remember,
but I was going something like,
"Stop, you are fucking drowning me,"
something like that,
"I'm gonna die."
It's just, you know, I went blank
I just went total blank
and I think that's when they nearly lost me
when I went total blank.
I don't know, I actually don't know
what the demon looks like.
I don't know what they were looking for,
what they were saying and everything.
[Tusha] About lunch time or late morning...
[knocking]
one of the local Maori [speaking Maori language]
was telephoned and he went 'round to the flat.
A man who they called Pakika Dave
who is a white European man who is...
a spiritual conduit
and a man whose spirituality they respected.
He said he felt a sense of evil
and a spiritual message came through to him
seemingly from the deceased grandmother.
It's gone.
[crying]
We just love our family so much, you know,
that we would never ever
do this sort of thing to our kids.
Tohunga says that Mom's very angry...
because we had the kids bottled up in there for...
I don't even know how long for.
[dramatic music]
And after blessing everybody who was there,
including Janet,
he advised that the other member
of the family should be taken to a hospital.
[news reporter] It was a desperate plea
from a 14 year old girl, "Stop it you're drowning me,"
as relatives forced water down her throat
during an exorcism.
[speaking Maori language] Janet Moses.
[speaking Maori language] Janet Moses,
[speaking Maori language]
Janet Moses died during a--
Killing a young mom.
- Killing Janet Moses. - During an exorcism.
- Exorcism. - Exorcism ceremony.
This has been a very controversial case.
[man] Torture and death are just not acceptable.
I've seen dozens...
[talking over each other]
[news reporter] Family members desperate
to hide the faces of the accused.
Don't fucking take photos of me.
We're already in enough fucking tragedy as it is.
[Tusha] Janet was young mother who lost her life.
It is absolutely critical that we understand
how this happens
and inevitably hold people to account
for what has happened.
What are the authorities to do
when a human being is killed in those circumstances.
You have two charges, manslaughter,
and one charge of cruelty to a child.
There is no suggestion whatever
that any of the people charged for Janet
had been using drugs.
The odd thing about the case
was deeply held spiritual Maori beliefs were being aired
in such a formal white...
colonial, if you like, system.
The court bends over backwards to be sensitive,
but when they described what had happened
it was like reading a scene from the Salem witch trials.
The family belief was based on misconceptions
and misinformation,
none of the expert witnesses had ever heard
of pouring large volumes of water
into the person afflicted
as a way of dealing with makutu
and as it turned out the lion
was one of a pair of concrete garden ornaments
that had been purchased new by the owner of the hotel.
He had smeared yogurt on the statues to try and weather them
and make them look older than they were,
but they certainly weren't objects of antiquity at all.
As the trial progressed
their most precious spiritual experiences
were described repeatedly as fixed false beliefs.
It just got to the point where I couldn't look at them,
it would make me cry.
I think all of the lawyers involved,
both prosecution and defense, could see the family dynamic
and we all felt for these people.
Public opinion was divided,
but the jury looked... sympathetic.
To breaking news now,
and the jury in the Janet Moses exorcism trial in Wellington
has just returned with a verdict, Simon.
It's been a long wait for that jury
to come back with their verdict,
lot of people at court wanting to hear that verdict,
here's what happened.
[jury foreman] Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
Not guilty, not guilty, not guilty.
[crying]
[news reporter] These five defendants
found guilty of manslaughter after a five week trial
and almost two days of deliberation.
Three other family members were acquitted
and walked free from court.
The two family leaders John Rawiri and Glenys Wright
received community detention
allowing them to live at home under a curfew.
They and their co-offenders all aunts of Janet Moses
also sentenced to community service,
supervision and to undertake cultural education programs.
[Grant] This was a just response to a tragic death.
The jury by their verdicts held the family members
who killed Janet criminally responsible for her death
and it's a recognition of the sanctity of life.
[Phil] Typical sentences for manslaughter
are four to six years
but none of the justifications
for sending people to prison seemed to be present here.
There was deterrent value here.
Punishment, well, what purpose would that serve?
And I know a lot of people are very cynical
of our system of justice
but as misguided as it appears to us
in the cold hard light of day,
they genuinely believed that they were assisting her.
[speaking Maori language]
[Viv] Must've been about a week after.
We had a meeting at the ma-lay
And we all decided to knock the place down,
knock it down.
I was sad to see that, man, it's bloody sad.
Every morning I get up and I look straight out my window
and see nothing, see nothing.
Yes, bloody... real sad news.
[Gail] Sometimes you can go past those flats
and you can still see a cloud that's above it.
You don't do those things.
You don't muck around with all those things.
[Heather] I've heard that they still believe
that the curse is alive in their family and it's passed on.
It's understandable that they could believe that.
Beliefs really are nothing more than conclusions
that we've drawn on the basis of our experience.
There is still the possibility that a makutu
did in fact attack Janet.
Nobody knows, they could've been right all along.
[Pouroto] There's no doubt in my mind she was possessed
either from a Maori or from a clinical point of view,
she was unwell,
and the curse
it's an attitude the family continued to carry on.
What they will hand on to the future generations
is really in their hands.
They have to deal with the fact that
despite the best that they tried to do for her
in that situation,
she died.
[dramatic piano music]
[laughing]
I didn't know Janet,
I knew Janet through-- through the investigation
so you only ever know Janet
through the eyes of other people, from what they tell you,
but as a mother myself
it really resonated with me.
We had two young children
who for the rest of their lives don't have their mom
and in fact they were so small that the only memory
they will ever have of their mother,
is memories that other people give them of her.
[laughing]
[Gail] She was a wonderful mother,
that's what I would tell them, how much she loved them
and how much she cared about them.
[dramatic music]
[speaking Maori language]
[dramatic piano music]