{"id":516341,"date":"2026-03-03T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:44:12","slug":"massage-therapist-charged-over-alleged-sex-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516341\/","title":{"rendered":"Massage therapist charged over alleged sex offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who worked as a massage therapist has been charged with multiple sex offences following extensive investigations by police.<\/p>\n<p>It will be alleged the man offered massage services to four victims on separate occasions between January 2022 and December 2025 before sexually assaulting them.<\/p>\n<p>Police executed a search warrant at the man\u2019s business in Diamond Valley on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Sunshine Coast Criminal Investigation Branch yesterday charged the 58-year-old Diamond Valley man with three counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to face Maroochydore Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing and police are urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who worked as a massage therapist has been charged with multiple sex offences following extensive investigations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-516341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516341","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=516341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}