{"id":776341,"date":"2026-07-03T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:19:13","slug":"charges-dropped-against-two-teens-who-allegedly-abducted-17yo-girl-outside-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776341\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against two teens who allegedly abducted 17yo girl outside school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police has dropped charges against two males who were arrested and charged with the abduction of a teenage girl outside a Melbourne school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-07-02\/teen-acccused-of-melbourne-abduction-faces-court\/106872438\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ayom Deng, 18, was arrested in Melbourne&#8217;s west at about 10am on Wednesday<\/a> over the alleged abduction near a school in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police alleged the 17-year-old girl was entering the school when she was approached by a male and forced into a vehicle at about 8:30am last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Deng faced the Melboure Magistrates&#8217; Court on Wednesday, where charge sheets revealed five offences including abducting the girl &#8220;with intent on marrying &#8230; without her consent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">His co-accused, a 15-year-old boy, was also charged with abduction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said they had contacted all parties to inform them charges had been withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Police has dropped charges against two males who were arrested and charged with the abduction of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[155457,184872,43,44,368201,41,39,42,40,2024],"class_list":["post-776341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-17-year-old","tag-abduction","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-springvale-south","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776341","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=776341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}