{"id":326747,"date":"2025-12-04T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326747\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:03:09","slug":"rugby-league-star-josh-mcguire-charged-with-strangling-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326747\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby league star Josh McGuire charged with strangling child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former rugby league star Josh McGuire has been charged with serious offences against a child.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire, a former Brisbane Bronco, St George Illawarra Dragons player and Australian representative, faces two charges, including one of common assault.<\/p>\n<p>He was brought to the Brisbane watch house by police and charged on Tuesday after a complaint was made to investigators following two alleged incidents last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Josh McGuire played for the Brisbane Broncos, the St George Illawarra Dragons, and was an Australian representative.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d7d89b4f9cb714fcecd1615413daeb43e934d512.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh McGuire played for the Brisbane Broncos, the St George Illawarra Dragons, and was an Australian representative.<\/p>\n<p>The charges relate to the alleged strangulation of a five-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The forward played almost 200 games for the Brisbane Broncos before joining the Dragons in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He also played 14 State of Origin matches for the Maroons, and was part of the Kangaroos\u2019 2017 World Cup-winning side, before a brief stint in the Super League.<\/p>\n<p>A former ambassador for Ronald McDonald House Charities and Mates4Mates, McGuire returned to the Broncos last year to join the coaching team as a contact and wrestling adviser.<\/p>\n<p>He finished in that role at the beginning of this year and has since been working in marketing.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on December 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former rugby league star Josh McGuire has been charged with serious offences against a child. McGuire, a former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-326747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326747","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=326747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}