{"id":304902,"date":"2026-02-27T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304902\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:23:09","slug":"bay-of-plenty-man-charged-with-abduction-and-indecent-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304902\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty man charged with abduction and indecent assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">A scene examination was being carried out on Ohiwa Harbour Rd, and police continued to investigate the \u201cheinous attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe understand the community will be shaken following this incident, and police will conduct reassurance patrols in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur initial inquiries suggest this is an isolated incident, and there is not believed to be any further risk to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Wilson said the accused, who was 34, was due to appear in the Whakat\u0101ne District Court today, charged with abduction, wounding with reckless disregard and assault with intent to commit sexual violation, indecent assault, and strangulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scene examination was being carried out on Ohiwa Harbour Rd, and police continued to investigate the \u201cheinous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109989,95,17704,89,1561,1559,13239,166871,22500,17709,685,5158,3180,111,43,139,2551,69,1118,1562,675,8229,2240,6923,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-304902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-abduction","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-assault","11":"tag-attack","12":"tag-bay","13":"tag-called","14":"tag-charged","15":"tag-heinous","16":"tag-indecent","17":"tag-investigating","18":"tag-last","19":"tag-man","20":"tag-near","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-night","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-plenty","28":"tag-police","29":"tag-they","30":"tag-whakatne","31":"tag-what","32":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304902","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=304902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}