{"id":274589,"date":"2025-11-10T03:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274589\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:28:07","slug":"appeal-for-other-possible-victims-as-man-45-faces-rape-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274589\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for other possible victims as man, 45, faces rape, assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for potential victims of a man who has been charged with raping and assaulting a woman in a small Queensland town to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old from \ufeffAmamoor near Gympie is accused of physically and sexually assaulting a woman he knew in October at a property where they both live separately.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was aged over 60.<\/p>\n<p>Gympie CIB Officer in Charge Detective Acting Sergeant Kiel Duggen said detectives are appealing for further victims who had also lived at the same property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reasonably believe there may be more people that have been the victims alleged sexual offences committed by the man, and not reported it to police,&#8221; Detective Acting Sergeant Duggen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please be assured that we&#8217;ll treat you and your story with sensitivity, dignity and respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man has been remanded in custody and is due to reappear in Gympie Magistrates Court on January 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for potential victims of a man who has been charged with raping and assaulting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-274589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274589","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=274589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}