Baby of gunned down man born

 ONE month after Nicholas Goru Rarua was gunned down in Hanuabada village, his wife, Mary Daure gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

But Nicholas Goru Rarua Jr will never have the joy of seeing his father who was killed during a raid by police on January 23 on the village allegedly over the sale of betel nuts.

“He promised me he would be there with me when I deliver the baby,” Daure said with tears running down her face.

“Walking out of the hospital this morning (yesterday) I remembered all the plans we made of how we would bring the baby home.” She said the late Rarua had many plans for their yet-to-be-born baby.

“He was overconfident that it would be a girl and he bought a lot of little pinky things for the baby in Cairns,” she said while smiling through her tears.

“It’s been exactly one month since I lost his father but holding the baby in my arms has healed my broken heart.”

Daure said she could smile through her tears because she felt that even though she had lost her husband, she now had a son.

“This morning when I woke up, I looked at my son’s face and I prayed that the person who pulled the trigger will have sleepless nights. That whoever is responsible for my husband’s death will just come forward and admit that he was the one who pulled the trigger,” she said.

The teary-eyed Daure said she hoped those who were responsible for her husband’s death could put themselves in her shoes and feel what she felt.

“My son will never know his father, will never meet him because of their actions,” she said.

An investigation into the shooting death of two men in Hanuabada is still going on.