{"id":623003,"date":"2026-10-07T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623003\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:08:12","slug":"invercargill-youths-charged-with-aggravated-robbery-over-queens-park-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623003\/","title":{"rendered":"Invercargill youths charged with aggravated robbery over Queens Park assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>7 Oct, 2026 04:26 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two youths are facing charges after a child was allegedly attacked and kidnapped in an Invercargill park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Detective Sergeant Mark McCloy said the arrests related to a serious assault of a minor in Queens Park last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         He said both youths have been charged with aggravated robbery, indecent assault, kidnapping<br \/>\n         and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">One of the youths also faces a theft charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">McCloy said further charges were being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 7 Oct, 2026 04:26 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,26480,7818,17704,1344,13239,1873,2511,9881,18390,20920,111,43,139,69,1523,8143,69656,27517,102,678],"class_list":["post-623003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aggravated","tag-allegedly","tag-assault","tag-attacked","tag-charged","tag-charges","tag-child","tag-facing","tag-invercargill","tag-kidnapped","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-park","tag-queens","tag-robbery","tag-with","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623003","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=623003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}