{"id":566779,"date":"2026-08-12T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:14:14","slug":"man-63-charged-over-historical-sexual-offending-on-new-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566779\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 63, charged over historical sexual offending on new charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/31\/63yo-man-charged-over-historical-sexual-offending-against-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of historical sexual offending<\/a> is due to appear in an Auckland court today on new charges, including breaching bail and another sexual offence.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old, who has interim name suppression, appeared in the Christchurch District Court on July 30 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>The man had been due to reappear in court on August 25. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/where-to-get-help-for-sexual-violence-NCIUF4WV75BWPBLHUZJKWVVTLU.png\" alt=\"Where to get help for sexual violence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Where to get help for sexual violence. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested today and charged with breaching bail and a new charge of unlawful sexual connection with a male aged 12 to 16, Detective Inspector Scott Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was due to appear in Auckland District Court this afternoon on the new charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police will continue to investigate whether there are other victims, however as the matter is before the courts and there are suppression orders no further comment will be made.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of historical sexual offending is due to appear in an Auckland court today on new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-566779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/566779","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=566779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}