{"id":527164,"date":"2026-03-08T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:36:28","slug":"charge-laid-after-teenager-assaulted-at-gowrie-park-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527164\/","title":{"rendered":"Charge laid after teenager assaulted at Gowrie Park rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old woman has been charged with assault after a teenage girl was allegedly attacked at a rodeo event at Gowrie Park in the Kentish region last night.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 10pm when a disturbance broke out near the stage area.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, a 17-year-old girl was physically assaulted while walking back to her camping area.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated the victim at the scene. Her injuries are not believed to be serious.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58791\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/20e2860c-gwnjz88gqi9z2ys_slq0z_4o4pj\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20e2860c-gwnjz88gqi9z2ys_slq0z_4o4pj.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20e2860c-gwnjz88gqi9z2ys_slq0z_4o4pj\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Officers conducted wand searches for dangerous items at the venue entrance. Image \/ File (Gowrie Park Rodeo)&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/20e2860c-gwnjz88gqi9z2ys_slq0z_4o4pj-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/20e2860c-gwnjz88gqi9z2ys_slq0z_4o4pj-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20e2860c-gwnjz88gqi9z2ys_slq0z_4o4pj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>Officers conducted wand searches for dangerous items at the venue entrance. Image \/ File (Gowrie Park Rodeo)<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old woman from Acacia Hills was charged with assault as part of the ongoing police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>She was detained to appear before court.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58790\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/26d1fab1-dbz228zjmhc6026_nxkph_2np94\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26d1fab1-dbz228zjmhc6026_nxkph_2np94.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"26d1fab1-dbz228zjmhc6026_nxkph_2np94\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A disturbance broke out near the stage area at the rodeo around 10pm. Image \/ File (Gowrie Park Rodeo)&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/26d1fab1-dbz228zjmhc6026_nxkph_2np94-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/26d1fab1-dbz228zjmhc6026_nxkph_2np94-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26d1fab1-dbz228zjmhc6026_nxkph_2np94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>A disturbance broke out near the stage area at the rodeo around 10pm. Image \/ File (Gowrie Park Rodeo)<\/p>\n<p>Police say they maintained high visibility patrols throughout the rodeo event and conducted wand searches for dangerous items on patrons entering the venue.<\/p>\n<p>No weapons were used in the assault and no other charges were laid during the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old woman has been charged with assault after a teenage girl was allegedly attacked at a rodeo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-527164","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\/527164","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=527164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}