{"id":822215,"date":"2026-07-25T04:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822215\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:01:15","slug":"newtown-news-teen-hospitalised-after-being-stabbed-in-head-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822215\/","title":{"rendered":"Newtown news: Teen hospitalised after being stabbed in head and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after an alleged violent attack that saw a teenager stabbed in the head by a group on a busy street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-fp5\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney\u2019s<\/a> inner-west.<\/p>\n<p>The incident unfolded shortly after 12.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The teenagers injuries are not considered life-threatening.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f1c460bd1e14a7fe8ada4a864a5b8d33558487ee765e2a30956dbf89612cafcb.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The teenagers injuries are not considered life-threatening.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to King Street in Newtown following reports that two teenagers had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacked<\/a> by three peoplewho later made off by the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/nsw-police-jdi\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old victim was treated at the scene by paramedics and was later taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/hospitals-5yd\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hospital<\/a> in a stable condition after being stabbed in his head and back.<\/p>\n<p>Two knives have since been found, and an 18-year-old was arrested and charged with affray on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Newtown Police Station before being granted conditional bail to appear at court on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>Police understand the victim and his friend were walking along the suburb\u2019s busy main strip when they had a confrontation with the group moments before the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation are continuing with the victim\u2019s 18-year-old friend helping police with their inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after an alleged violent attack that saw a teenager stabbed in the head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-822215","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\/822215","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=822215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}