{"id":312809,"date":"2026-03-04T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312809\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:32:19","slug":"middle-aged-man-accused-of-trying-to-solicit-sexual-favours-from-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312809\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-aged man accused of trying to solicit sexual favours from teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/588600\/name-suppression-continues-for-man-accused-of-trying-to-solicit-sexual-favours-from-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">By\u00a0Adam Burns\u00a0of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The identity of a Christchurch man\u00a0accused of trying to solicit sexual favours\u00a0from three teenage girls will remain secret for now.<\/p>\n<p>The man, aged in his 50s, has interim name suppression that prevents RNZ detailing much of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Judge David Robinson extended the interim suppression order when the man appeared via audio-visual link in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The man is yet to enter a plea and name suppression will remain in place until at least his next appearance in May.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged last October with five counts of exposing girls under the age of 16 to indecent communication.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show he is accused of propositioning the first girl after sexually taunting her and asking for her phone number in March last year.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week later, he verbally taunted the girl again.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of telling a second teenage girl &#8220;you&#8217;re gorgeous, you can earn some money if you give me five minutes of your time&#8221; in June.<\/p>\n<p>He was also accused of saying &#8220;you&#8217;re pretty&#8221; to a third girl before offering her $100 to perform a sex act on him in early August.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified in the days following the approaches and the man was arrested a few weeks later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Adam Burns\u00a0of RNZ The identity of a Christchurch man\u00a0accused of trying to solicit sexual favours\u00a0from three teenage girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-312809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312809","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=312809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}