But Sherwood said when he went to assist the woman, he was confronted within seconds as the woman yelled, \u201cF*** you, man\u201d before leaning over and striking him in the face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sort of got concussed for a bit of a minute, and I just turned around and heard something hit the ground,\u201d Sherwood said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy blood was everywhere. I could feel my tongue and my tooth was just poking out the side.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt happened so fast, I just couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sherwood said mall security arrived, along with police and ambulance staff, but the woman fled. <\/p>\n
Father of two, Matt Sherwood, has had six teeth removed since he was assaulted at a shopping centre on Father’s Day Weekend. <\/p>\n
Police responded about 12.50pm after a report of a woman allegedly punching a man. <\/p>\n
Sherwood\u2019s wife was in the mall with their two young children and arrived at what he described as a \u201cchaotic scene\u201d.<\/p>\n
His injuries meant he would need to lose six teeth and have multiple dental consultations\t– a process which he said has cost him and his family thousands.<\/p>\n
He said he had been left \u201cfrustrated\u201d with what he said was a drawn out almost seven-week process for police to find the person responsible. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single sort of point we get to, it\u2019s just like it\u2019s forced,\u201d Sherwood said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve done something wrong all the time. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven if it did take seven weeks, I think I would have liked some sort of timeline, and just to keep up with stuff and contact me and tell me the time frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could have been over and done with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt Sherwood was taken to hospital after the assault. <\/p>\n
He said his young son was \u201cswitched on\u201d and he was often left explaining the situation to him. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter\u2019s already had two teeth knocked out from the playground – so she was traumatised by it,\u201d Sherwood said. <\/p>\n
\u201cToday she\u2019s like, \u2018I don\u2019t want to give you a kiss Dad, because you\u2019ve got that stuff on your teeth\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know that\u2019s only little things, but they\u2019re so aware of what\u2019s happening. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Palms is across the road from school; it\u2019s just they shouldn\u2019t have to feel like that, they\u2019ll remember that for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are investigating. <\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said that staff had been in contact with the victim multiple times since the matter, providing updates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to make progress with our investigation and will continue to update the victim when there is further information to share,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Sherwood said when he went to assist the woman, he was confronted within seconds as the woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32034,1975,52056,1558,11776,1550,1061,4487,48831,9064,305,101,52058,111,139,69,52057,312,24035,23419,1243,213,43272,6123,4741],"class_list":["post-63897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-assaulted","tag-at","tag-baker","tag-been","tag-busy","tag-centre","tag-children","tag-christchurch","tag-cookies","tag-fathers","tag-have","tag-left","tag-mall","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-palms","tag-says","tag-selling","tag-seriously","tag-shopping","tag-sports","tag-traumatised","tag-while","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63897","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=63897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}