\u201cAfter a period of time, the victims managed to return home and police were called.\u201d<\/p>\n
A social media post appealing for information says the girls were approached by a group of older teenage girls, who allegedly pretended to befriend them before encouraging them to \u201chang out\u201d.<\/p>\n
It said the girls were lured away from the beach and to benches behind Katsubi.<\/p>\n
The post claims the girls were allegedly \u201cbeaten and kicked, stomped on, strangled and knocked unconscious\u201d.<\/p>\n
It also alleges the girls were \u201cstripped down to their bras, spat on, filmed during the attack and robbed of clothing, phones and other belongings\u201d.<\/p>\n
The girls were allegedly threatened with having their \u201cthroats slit\u201d if they told passersby they were in danger or reported the incident to police.<\/p>\n
It said the girls had suffered \u201csignificant trauma\u201d and required medical assessment following the attack.<\/p>\n
Williams said the two victims were able to identify \u201ca number of young people of interest to the investigation at a bus station\u201d.<\/p>\n
Police attended and spoke with the group.<\/p>\n
Follow-up inquiries are being made, \u201cwith potential charges being considered\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know members of the public would be upset by this behaviour and police will not tolerate it in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The social media post appealing for information asked anyone with any information to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you were around Takapuna Beach, the Katsubi area, the nearby bench\/public toilets or surrounding streets between approximately 8.00pm and 11.30pm last night, please think carefully about whether you saw or heard anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny information, even something that seems minor, could help establish the movements and actions of those involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter a period of time, the victims managed to return home and police were called.\u201d A social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7818,17704,1344,3595,1873,40570,47753,13838,209,111,43,139,69,6507,675,127536,18477,5163,10706,1237,20424,3608,102],"class_list":["post-577654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-allegedly","tag-assault","tag-attacked","tag-by","tag-charges","tag-considering","tag-extremely","tag-girls","tag-group","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-subjected","tag-takapuna","tag-teen","tag-teenage","tag-two","tag-violent","tag-were","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577654","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=577654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}