{"id":183422,"date":"2025-12-14T14:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183422\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:28:19","slug":"teen-who-fled-youth-justice-facility-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183422\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen who fled youth justice facility found"},"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\">\n<p>Photo: Supplied \/ Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have located a teenager who absconded from a youth justice residence near Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The boy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/581746\/young-person-escapes-youth-justice-facility-near-christchurch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fled from Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo in Rolleston on Saturday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was found at 4.15am, with the assistance of the Eagle helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Oranga Tamariki confirmed the boy was back in custody.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in Youth Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo facility housed people aged between 14-17, who faced serious charges or who had been sentenced by the Youth Court.<\/p>\n<p>Oranga Tamariki said it would conduct a review to find out how the boy escaped.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Supplied \/ Google Maps Police have located a teenager who absconded from a youth justice residence near&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-183422","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\/183422","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=183422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183422\/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=183422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}