{"id":644591,"date":"2026-10-29T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644591\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:58:10","slug":"myers-park-incident-girl-recovering-after-alleged-attempted-murder-at-auckland-park-father-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644591\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers Park incident: Girl recovering after alleged attempted murder at Auckland park, father says"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said his daughter suffered \u201ca lot of scars to her head\u201d but was now \u201cdisconnected from all medicine\u201d and walking unaided.<\/p>\n

They were now waiting for her to tick all the boxes before being discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n

The father said his family was now focused on the \u201cpsychological damage\u201d she suffered in the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has post-traumatic stress in her own way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause she is young and children at that age undergo it in a different way compared to adults, so most of the time she behaves normally but from time to time she asks questions about what has happened and similar things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice at Myers Park after the alleged playground attack. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupai<\/p>\n

A 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted murder<\/a> shortly after the incident about 4.45pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Police said he and the child did not know each other.<\/p>\n

The accused was absent from his hearing<\/a> at Auckland District Court on Tuesday as he remained in hospital with serious self-inflicted injuries.<\/p>\n

Judge Nicola Mathers granted the man interim name suppression. He is yet to make a plea.<\/p>\n

The case is expected to be called again in November. He faces a maximum sentence of 14 years\u2019 imprisonment if convicted.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe 20-year-old man charged with attempted murder could not appear in court due to self-inflicted injuries. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupa’i<\/p>\n

Police have since announced additional foot patrols around Myers Park<\/a>, with Auckland central area prevention manager Inspector Beth Houliston acknowledging the incident would have been confronting for residents.<\/p>\n

Auckland City Residents Group chairman Anthony Phillips said residents had been calling for an increase in community policing for years, but warned that even a significantly larger police presence could not necessarily prevent such attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city centre is an area of high need. There\u2019s a lot of vulnerable people living in the city centre, so it\u2019s difficult to have eyes and patrol people at every hotspot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said his daughter suffered \u201ca lot of scars to her head\u201d but was now \u201cdisconnected from all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,665,1975,89,5765,51,1853,2209,6868,671,10933,6093,4275,93280,111,43,139,69,8143,26884,312,6290,6754,20424,4770],"class_list":["post-644591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-around","tag-at","tag-attack","tag-attempted","tag-auckland","tag-central","tag-father","tag-girl","tag-incident","tag-injured","tag-little","tag-murder","tag-myers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-recovering","tag-says","tag-surgery","tag-undergoing","tag-violent","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644591","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=644591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}