{"id":91260,"date":"2025-10-21T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:34:07","slug":"man-72-charged-with-historical-indecency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91260\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 72, charged with historical indecency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another man has been charged with sex crimes as police continue to investigate historical sexual offending at Auckland&#8217;s Dilworth School. <\/p>\n<p>A number of former staff and people connected with the school have been charged or convicted over historical abuse.  <\/p>\n<p>Today, police said a 72-year-old man has been charged with three counts of indecency with a boy aged between 12 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These charges relate to additional alleged offending that has been identified as part of our ongoing inquiries,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Greaves said. <\/p>\n<p>The man will appear in the Auckland District Court tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>Greaves said investigators had spoken with a number of former students of the school who had been identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2022\/06\/26\/how-did-nzs-richest-school-become-centre-of-sexual-abuse-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">victims of sexual assault<\/a> while at the school. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a massive outage breaks the internet, weather warnings and watched in force, more allegations levelled against Prince Andrew. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we have spoken to more than 150 former students, I still encourage anyone with information that hasn&#8217;t spoken with the investigation team yet to get in touch,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Those with information were asked to call 105. <\/p>\n<p>In March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/03\/01\/dilworth-school-formally-apologises-for-decades-of-horrific-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dilworth formally apologised<\/a> to survivors of historic sexual abuse, acknowledging it had &#8220;buried, blocked, ignored and denied&#8221; horrors over decades.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2023\/09\/19\/scathing-inquiry-finds-dilworth-hid-sex-abuse-claims-silenced-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">independent inquiry in 2023<\/a> identified 175 victims of abuse at the school but acknowledged that the total number could exceed 230. The offending occurred from the 1950s until 2005, with decades of abuse cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>The Dilworth Trust Board has set aside more than $50 million for compensation payments. The trust, which runs the school established in the early 1900s to educate disadvantaged boys, currently holds assets worth close to a billion dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another man has been charged with sex crimes as police continue to investigate historical sexual offending at Auckland&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,84,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-91260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91260","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=91260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}