{"id":401253,"date":"2026-04-28T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:45:08","slug":"investigation-after-unexplained-injuries-to-infant-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401253\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation after &#8216;unexplained injuries&#8217; to infant in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after an infant was taken to hospital with what they described as &#8220;serious unexplained injuries&#8221; in Christchurch yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Johnson said the circumstances surrounding how the infant came to be injured were still being established.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers are undertaking enquiries to establish how the infant came to be injured, including speaking with family members,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents of Barbadoes St may see a police presence in the coming days, as officers conduct area enquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after an infant was taken to hospital with what they described as &#8220;serious unexplained injuries&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-401253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-christchurch-canterbury","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401253","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=401253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}