{"id":491683,"date":"2026-03-24T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491683\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:15:07","slug":"boy-12-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-woman-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491683\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 12, charged with sexually assaulting woman in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 12-year-old boy has been charged with sexual assault after a woman was found seriously injured at an address in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The woman, in her 60s, was discovered in Kellett Road at about 18:15 GMT on 18 March. She remains in a serious condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with wounding and sexual assault. He has also been charged with a separate theft matter and intentional strangulation after a woman was confronted in the street last month, West Midlands Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, has been remanded to appear before Birmingham Youth Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy has been charged with sexual assault after a woman was found seriously injured at an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}