{"id":329223,"date":"2025-12-05T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329223\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:36:14","slug":"ex-nrl-star-josh-mcguire-charged-with-assaulting-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329223\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL star Josh McGuire charged with assaulting child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NRL star Josh McGuire has been hit with charges relating to an alleged assault on a child.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old has been charged by police on two charges, including one of common assault.<\/p>\n

It was alleged in a complaint to investigators that McGuire was involved in two incidents, including strangling a child last week.<\/p>\n

He has been booked to appear at the Brisbane Magistrates Court on December 17.<\/p>\n

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McGuire had a decorated NRL career which spanned more than 200 games across 13 years at the Broncos<\/a>, Cowboys<\/a> and Dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He represented Queensland 14 times in Origin between 2015-19 and also played for Australia eight times through 2016-18.<\/p>\n

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Since his playing career ended, McGuire was involved in a coaching role at the Broncos which ended earlier this year.<\/p>\n

He had since been working in marketing.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time McGuire has courted controversy with a stint at Super League club Warrington in 2023 starting with a seven-game ban following his usage of a derogatory slur in a trial match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Josh McGuire has been hit with charges relating to an alleged assault on a child.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-329223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329223","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=329223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}