{"id":328008,"date":"2025-12-04T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328008\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:20:11","slug":"josh-mcguire-charged-allegations-he-strangled-a-child-what-happened-details-court-date-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328008\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh McGuire charged, allegations he strangled a child, what happened, details, court date, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL prop Josh McGuire has been charged over serious allegations relating to a young child. <\/p>\n<p>McGuire was arrested this week and charged with two offences, including one of common assault, following a complaint made to investigators. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/former-nrl-star-josh-mcguire-charged-with-strangling-child\/4a99da79-62a5-4531-828e-7009d3622a43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">9News<\/a> reported the charges relate to the alleged strangulation of a five-year-old child. <\/p>\n<p>Queensland Police confirmed they charged a 35-year-old Brighton man following investigations by the Gateway Child Protection and Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Think Some Egos Need to be put Aside&#8221; | 01:50<\/p>\n<p>McGuire retired from rugby league in 2023 after playing 262 NRL games for the Broncos, Cowboys and Dragons. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764530230_348_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He also featured in seven games for Super League side Warrington before that stint ended after he copped a 12 game suspension for using unacceptable language on the field. <\/p>\n<p>McGuire also represented the Maroons on 14 occasions and played eight games for Australia. <\/p>\n<p>McGuire is set to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on December 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL prop Josh McGuire has been charged over serious allegations relating to a young child. McGuire was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,183952,183949,2105,15695,183951,761,762,673,2613,158,677,159,85,4563,14869,670,183950],"class_list":["post-328008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-five-year-old-child","tag-gateway-child-protection","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-jason-mccawley","tag-josh-mcguire","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-zealand-warriors","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","tag-super-league","tag-sydney","tag-young-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328008","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=328008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}