{"id":526054,"date":"2026-07-14T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526054\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:55:08","slug":"auckland-actor-isaac-lucas-who-played-cookie-bear-charged-with-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526054\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland actor Isaac Lucas who played Cookie Bear charged with child sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">In separate alleged offending, Lucas is also facing three charges of exposing a young person to sexually explicit messages in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">These charges carry a maximum jail term of three years relating to alleged messages in August, September and October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">He allegedly used the social media sites Chat Avenue and The Session to speak to minors. Details of a graphic sexual message that Lucas allegedly sent to a 9-year-old are included in court documents seen by the Herald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Lucas declined to comment on the case when approached by the Herald last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The actor lists his acting experience online as having twice played Cookie Bear for Hudson\u2019s Biscuits &#8211; a well-loved mascot which for years was featured on Griffin\u2019s Chocolate Chippie, Hundreds &amp; Thousands and Stripe biscuits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">A popular icon in the 1970s, the associated Cookie Bear club was joined by 162,000 children (nearly one in four Kiwi kids at the time). <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Lucas\u2019 other appearances including being an extra on King Kong, The Lord of the Rings, and Without a Paddle as well as a wedding guest on the Breaker Uperers.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Isaac Lucas has been an extra in a range of productions and featured in local ads. Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Isaac Lucas has been an extra in a range of productions and featured in local ads. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">He is listed in the soundtrack credits for the movie WandaVision and has appeared on the New Zealand TV show Sensing Murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Lucas is due to stand trial in May next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Katie Harris is an Auckland-based journalist who covers issues including sexual assault, workplace misconduct, media, crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In separate alleged offending, Lucas is also facing three charges of exposing a young person to sexually explicit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1903,1117,3376,2851,51,20206,1558,13239,2511,111167,156,73195,27308,21081,1019,123955,440,51211,60677,111,139,69,4517,384,61492,204069,260228,3466,7680,17703,17251,1299,102,87539,379,4741],"class_list":["post-526054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abuse","tag-accused","tag-actor","tag-also","tag-auckland","tag-bear","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-child","tag-cookie","tag-entertainment","tag-explicit","tag-extra","tag-historical","tag-international","tag-isaac","tag-local","tag-lucas","tag-messages","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-past","tag-people","tag-played","tag-portrayed","tag-productions","tag-sending","tag-sex","tag-sexual","tag-twice","tag-who","tag-with","tag-worked","tag-year","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526054","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=526054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}