{"id":391907,"date":"2026-04-22T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:03:09","slug":"fourteenth-person-charged-with-historical-sexual-offending-at-dilworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391907\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteenth person charged with historical sexual offending at Dilworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fourteenth person has been charged over alleged historical sexual offending against three students at Auckland’s Dilworth School in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old man had been sought by the investigation team for “a number of years and had been offshore”, Detective Inspector Scott Beard said.<\/p>\n

He was arrested in Blenheim today as part of Operation Beverly, the investigation into historical sexual offending at the all boys’ school. <\/p>\n

“I can confirm that this individual returned to New Zealand last week and has been engaged by a member of the investigation team on his arrival,” Beard said.<\/p>\n

“He has been spoken to today and has now been arrested and charged.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/p>\n

Where to get help for sexual violence. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

The man was due to appear in the Blenheim District Court tomorrow on three counts of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, and three counts of incident assault on a boy aged 12-16.<\/p>\n

The matter would then be transferred to the Auckland District Court for a hearing on April 29.<\/p>\n

Beard said the charges were laid for alleged offending against three students in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

“Today\u2019s arrest is a significant development in the investigation, especially for those men who have waited some time for this matter to be heard in the justice system,” Beard said.<\/p>\n

“At this stage, two men remain before the Auckland District Court for alleged offending identified through the course of the investigation.”<\/p>\n

A 73-year-old man charged in late 2025 would reappear in court in April 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fourteenth person has been charged over alleged historical sexual offending against three students at Auckland’s Dilworth School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-391907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/391907","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=391907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}