{"id":11989,"date":"2025-07-21T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11989\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:34:08","slug":"man-pointed-gun-at-bound-three-year-olds-in-queensland-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11989\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pointed gun at bound three-year-olds in Queensland, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: The following article contains distressing content, including information about the alleged abuse of children.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Two men have been charged in separate, unrelated incidents involving children in a town in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland\">Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old man was arrested after an investigation into alleged weapon and drug offences on a property in Emerald, west of Rockhampton, on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>Police seized a phone from the property, which was allegedly found to contain a picture of two children bound with duct tape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5053b951-fb38-4a48-b92b-960062278114.webp\"   alt=\"Detectives from Emerald Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) have charged a 44-year-old man with weapons offences and deprivation of liberty following an alleged incident last week.\"\/>Detectives from Emerald Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) have charged a 44-year-old man with weapons offences and deprivation of liberty following an alleged incident last week. (Queensland Police)<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPolice claimed the man can be \ufeffseen pointing an apparent firearm at the children.<\/p>\n<p>It will be \ufefffurther alleged the picture was forwarded to several other people.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have identified the children, both aged just three, and police say the children are safe.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>They are known to the man but not related to him.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old man has been charged with unlawful weapon possession, dangerous conduct, and two counts of deprivation of liberty.<\/p>\n<p>He was granted conditional bail and will appear in court in August.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate and unrelated incident, police charged a 59-year-old man on July 18 with drug supply and child sex offences after concerns were raised by community members.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alleged that between June and July this year, the man provided dangerous drugs to a child and committed sexual offences against them.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been charged with rape, grooming a child under 16, \ufeffsupplying drugs to a minor, and breaching bail.<\/p>\n<p>He was refused police bail and will appear in court today.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: The following article contains distressing content, including information about the alleged abuse of children.\ufeff Two men have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-11989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}