first violent incident on August 22<\/a>.<\/p>\nAccording to RNZ, the initial assault involved two girls who were ganged up on by a group of teenagers they had been associating with.<\/p>\n
A community post re-shared by a local advocate alleged the two girls were stomped on and beaten, before being stripped down to their undergarments and spat on.<\/p>\n
They were then reportedly robbed of their phones, clothes and belongings.<\/p>\n
Inspector Aron McKeown said the second attack involved one of the original victims and one of the teens now under arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, this offending has involved the same victim and offender as the initial incident in August, for which an arrest had already been made,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat offender, a 14-year-old female, has since been remanded in custody and is facing a charge of aggravated robbery with further charges pending,\u201d<\/p>\n
Police have since caught a second person who took part in the attacks, another 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
She is due to appear in North Shore Youth Court on September 30 on charges of aggravated robbery, two counts of assault with intent to injure, shoplifting, and taking a document dishonestly.<\/p>\n
McKeown said enquiries into the case are ongoing and police are working with the families of the victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice acknowledge the significant concern these incidents have caused the victims, their families, and the wider community,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no tolerance for these acts of violence, and it is understandably distressing for the victim to have encountered one of the alleged offenders on two occasions.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice have maintained regular contact with the victims and their families as we worked to hold the offenders accountable,” McKeown said.<\/p>\n
The arrests were made as part of an investigation into a group of Takapuna youths in relation to multiple offences, including robberies, assaults and shoplifting.<\/p>\n
McKeown said the investigation started with the August 22 incident but turned into a wider operation when police connected it to other similar events.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the enquiry, investigators identified additional incidents allegedly involving the same group,” he said.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made in relation to the second offender involved in the September 13 attack.<\/p>\n
So far, four teens between the ages of 14 to 16 have been referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teens are in police custody after a girl was twice attacked in aggravated robberies. The second of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603383,"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-603382","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\/603382","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=603382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}