{"id":690560,"date":"2026-05-24T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:26:10","slug":"man-20-charged-over-alleged-rape-of-elderly-woman-in-own-palmerston-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690560\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 20, charged over alleged rape of elderly woman in own Palmerston home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 20-year-old man has been charged with several offences after allegedly raping an elderly woman in her own Palmerston home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Saturday, the Northern Territory Police Force (NTPF) said they had charged the man with sexual intercourse without consent, aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and depriving a person of personal liberty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The incident occurred on Wednesday night about 8:50pm in Woodroffe, outside Darwin, after the man entered the woman&#8217;s house through the front door.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An NT Police car parked on the street.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/67435a05abd58aa88be866eec990cde2.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police arrested the man two days after the attack. (ABC News: Hamish Harty)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detective Senior Sergeant Toby Wilson said the alleged crime was &#8220;particularly heinous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This arrest reflects a co-ordinated effort by Sex Crimes Unit, Forensics, Fugitive Task Force, Domestic Violence Investigation Unit, General Duties, Serious Crime, Territory Intel, CCTV operators and Dog Operations Unit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The Sex Crimes Unit remains dedicated to supporting victims of sexual violence while relentlessly pursuing and prosecuting those responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man is expected to appear in Darwin Local Court on Monday and remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The NTPF launched Operation Ventura last Monday to combat rising crime and anti-social activity in the Palmerston area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Recent crime statistics trends show a rise in assaults and property offences across Palmerston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man has been charged with several offences after allegedly raping an elderly woman in her own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-690560","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\/690560","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=690560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}