{"id":181250,"date":"2025-12-13T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181250\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:05:08","slug":"young-person-escapes-youth-justice-facility-near-christchurch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181250\/","title":{"rendered":"Young person escapes youth justice facility near Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JWGMJL_facility_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"551\" alt=\"Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo - Youth Justice Residence in Burnham, near Christchurch.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nRNZ understands the facility the young person escaped from is Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>A young person has escaped from a youth justice facility in Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ understands the facility they escaped from is Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo in Selwyn.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers were making inquiries to locate the youth who &#8220;absconded&#8221; on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Oranga Tamariki deputy chief executive of youth justice services and residential care Dean Winter confirmed it was working with police to find the person.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ understands the facility the young person escaped from is Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo. Photo: Supplied \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-181250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}