The case against a former Queensland State of Origin player accused of seriously assaulting a child has been before a court for the first time.<\/p>\n
Joshua McGuire was arrested in December last year, following investigations by child protection officers.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old was charged with one count each of common assault and strangulation.<\/p>\n
It is alleged both offences were committed against a child.<\/p>\n
His matter was briefly heard in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n
Mr McGuire is on bail and did not appear in court.<\/p>\n
His lawyer Emma Kearney told the court there had “been issue with this matter” and cited delays regarding the disclosure of the prosecution’s brief of evidence.<\/p>\n
“Nothing has been disclosed to our office,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Kearney told the court two statements were “particularly pertinent” to Mr McGuire being able to make changes to his bail conditions.<\/p>\n
“The Crown has opposed all attempts to vary bail \u2026 we can’t reasonably make any application in the absence of that evidence,” she said.<\/p>\n
A magistrate ordered the material be handed over by prosecutors within seven days and adjourned the case to be mentioned again in two weeks.<\/p>\n
Mr McGuire previously played NRL for three teams including the Brisbane Broncos between 2009 and 2022.<\/p>\n
He also represented the Maroons more than a dozen times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The case against a former Queensland State of Origin player accused of seriously assaulting a child has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,36619,184210,234129,85],"class_list":["post-453389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-magistrates-court","tag-joshua-mcguire","tag-joshua-mcguire-charges","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453389","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=453389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}