{"id":339372,"date":"2026-03-10T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339372\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:49:08","slug":"man-arrested-over-alleged-inappropriate-approaches-to-children-and-sexual-assault-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339372\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over alleged inappropriate approaches to children and sexual assault in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been arrested for questioning after a number of young children were approached, and at least one assaulted in Clontarf, north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>, last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In one incident, children of national school age were with each other when they were approached by a man on the street, close to the Howth Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is alleged his approaches to the children were inappropriate and were followed by a sexual assault. He is believed to have left the area by bike before any adults in the vicinity had time to realise what had happened and intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Other similar incidents are understood to have allegedly occurred in the same region of Dublin. A Garda investigation was established at Clontarf Garda station and has resulted in a suspect being identified and searches being conducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda Headquarters said in a brief statement the suspect had been arrested on Tuesday morning \u201cas part of an ongoing investigations into an alleged assault and suspicious approaches to children in the Dublin 3 area\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMembers from the Divisional Protective Services Unit, DMR North, Clontarf and <a href=\"http:\/\/irishtimes.com\/tags\/santry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/irishtimes.com\/tags\/santry\">Santry<\/a> searched a property in Santry and arrested the man aged in his 20s,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe is currently being detained under section four of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As part of the ongoing investigation specialist interviewers, who are experienced at taking statements from vulnerable witnesses and victims, interviewed the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested for questioning after a number of young children were approached, and at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,74,615,61,60,43,12562],"class_list":["post-339372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-clontarf","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-santry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}