{"id":557123,"date":"2026-08-03T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557123\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:14:08","slug":"parents-wake-to-find-stranger-in-childs-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557123\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents wake to find stranger in child&#8217;s bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a Christchurch couple woke up to find a stranger in their young child\u2019s bedroom in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the Wigram property about 12.40am on Sunday after a man was allegedly discovered in the 2-year-old\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unknown person had been located inside an address. Police attended and took the man into custody,\u201d a police spokesperson told The Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was then taken to receive medical attention. Inquiries are ongoing, no charges at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple were woken by a noise and\u00a0found the man in\u00a0their\u00a0child\u2019s\u00a0bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>They confronted him, grabbed the\u00a0child, and\u00a0waited with the man for police to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>The family said the incident\u00a0was traumatic and they never thought something like this would happen to them.<\/p>\n<p>They will be boosting their\u00a0home security measures\u00a0with cameras and alarms.<\/p>\n<p>-Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a Christchurch couple woke up to find a stranger in their young child\u2019s bedroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-557123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/557123","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=557123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}