{"id":552401,"date":"2026-07-31T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:05:10","slug":"63yo-man-charged-over-historical-sexual-offending-against-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552401\/","title":{"rendered":"63yo man charged over historical sexual offending against boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old man has been arrested in Christchurch over alleged historical sexual offending against boys. <\/p>\n<p>The man appeared in the Christchurch District Court yesterday, charged with four counts of unlawful sexual connection with a male aged 12 to 16 and three counts of indecent assault on a boy aged between 12 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to reappear in court on August 25. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the matter is before the courts, police are unable to comment further,&#8221; Detective Inspector Scott Anderson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 63-year-old man has been arrested in Christchurch over alleged historical sexual offending against boys. The man appeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-552401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552401","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=552401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}