{"id":194522,"date":"2025-12-21T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194522\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:25:10","slug":"man-has-some-sexual-abuse-charges-acquitted-others-ended-with-hung-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194522\/","title":{"rendered":"Man has some sexual abuse charges acquitted, others ended with hung jury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/p>\n

\nMichael Mclean.
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Finn Blackwell\n<\/p>\n

A man accused of sexually abusing a boy into his teens<\/a> has been acquitted on some charges, while others left a hung jury.<\/p>\n

Michael Mclean has been on trial in the Auckland District Court<\/a>, with his defence calling the allegations nonsense and claiming they never happened.<\/p>\n

Mclean originally faced 33 charges, including performing indecent acts on a person under 16, grooming and sexual violation.<\/p>\n

One of the lawyers for Mclean told RNZ the Crown pulled a number of charges early in the trial, including all but one of the sexual violation charges, leaving Mclean to face 25 charges.<\/p>\n

Jurors entered deliberation last Wednesday and came back on Friday, acquitting Mclean on six charges.<\/p>\n

The jury was hung on the remaining 19.<\/p>\n

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":"Michael Mclean. Photo: RNZ \/ Finn Blackwell A man accused of sexually abusing a boy into his teens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173768,"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-194522","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\/194522","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=194522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}