{"id":329450,"date":"2025-12-05T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329450\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:16:23","slug":"ex-nrl-star-charged-with-child-strangulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329450\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL star charged with child strangulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former Brisbane Broncos star Josh McGuire will appear in a Brisbane court later this month after being charged over alleged strangulation and assault offences against a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ex-Broncos, Cowboys, Dragons, Queensland and Australia prop was arrested by Queensland Police on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queensland Police said they had charged a 35-year-old Brighton man with one count each of choking\/strangulation and common assault against a child.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"NRL Elimination Final - Brisbane v Gold Coast\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1e2f00b50c4d71288eac83cb68060922.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Brisbane Broncos prop Josh McGuire. Photo: Bradley Kanaris\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was arrested on Tuesday after an investigation by the Queensland Police Gateway Child Protection and Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on December 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McGuire played 259 games in 14 seasons in the NRL with Brisbane, North Queensland and St George Illawarra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He played 197 games for the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also played 14 Origins for Queensland and Test football for Australia and Samoa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McGuire retired in 2023 after a one-season stint with English Super League club Warrington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Brisbane Broncos star Josh McGuire will appear in a Brisbane court later this month after being charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4428,183951,761,762,158,701,4106,85],"class_list":["post-329450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-josh-mcguire","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-police","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329450","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=329450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}