Police are investigating after two teenage girls were allegedly attacked and had their belongings stolen by a group of youths in Auckland’s Takapuna last night.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Williams said the two girls had spent about an hour with the group on Saturday evening before the alleged attack.<\/p>\n
“At about 9.30pm, the group reportedly turned on the pair,” Williams said.<\/p>\n
“The victims were separated and reportedly violently assaulted, before having their personal items stolen.”<\/p>\n
The pair eventually managed to return home and police were called.<\/p>\n
Williams said the victims later identified several young people of interest at a bus station, where officers attended and spoke with the group.<\/p>\n
Most of those believed to be involved, aged between 12 and 17, had now been identified by police. <\/p>\n
Further inquiries were underway and potential charges were being considered.<\/p>\n
Police were unable to confirm how many girls were allegedly involved.<\/p>\n
“We know members of the public would be upset by this behaviour and police will not tolerate it in our community,” Williams said.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the incident but was stood down before arriving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after two teenage girls were allegedly attacked and had their belongings stolen by a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578086,"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-578085","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\/578085","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=578085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}