{"id":623553,"date":"2026-10-07T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623553\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:16:13","slug":"minor-allegedly-attacked-and-indecently-assaulted-by-youths-in-invercargill-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623553\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor allegedly attacked and indecently assaulted by youths in Invercargill park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minor was allegedly\u00a0indecently assaulted\u00a0and robbed in a \u2018serious assault\u2019 in the same Invercargill park that was the scene of\u00a0dating app attacks earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested two youths in relation to \u201ca serious assault of a minor\u201d that took\u00a0in Invercargill\u2019s Queens Park last Friday,\u00a0Detective Sergeant Mark McCloy said.<\/p>\n<p>Both youths have been charged with aggravated robbery, indecent assault, kidnapping, and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>One of the youths has an additional charge of theft.<\/p>\n<p>Further charges were being considered.<\/p>\n<p>These youths were not related to a series of assaults that took place in Invercargill earlier this year, Det Sgt McCloy said.<\/p>\n<p>The youths appeared on Wednesday\u00a0in Invercargill Youth Court. They were due to reappear on October 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A minor was allegedly\u00a0indecently assaulted\u00a0and robbed in a \u2018serious assault\u2019 in the same Invercargill park that was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-623553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/623553","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=623553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}