A man has been arrested amid a police investigation into alleged historic sexual offending.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Scott Anderson said in a statement on Friday a 63-year-old man had been arrested in relation to alleged historic sexual offending.<\/p>\n
“The man has been 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 to 16.”<\/p>\n
The man was due to appear in court again next month.<\/p>\n
He has interim name suppression.<\/p>\n
Do you know more? Email sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n
Anderson said as the matter was before the courts, police were not able to comment further.<\/p>\n
RNZ understands the defendant has lived in Auckland and Christchurch.<\/p>\n
Oranga Tamariki has been made aware by police that they are investigating alleged historic offending by a 63-year-old man, said DCE Tamariki and Wh\u0101nau services, Thomas Ronan.<\/p>\n
“Given matters are before the court, and subject to an active investigation, we are unable to comment further.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested amid a police investigation into alleged historic sexual offending. Detective Inspector Scott Anderson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-553178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553178","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=553178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}