{"id":715966,"date":"2026-07-28T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:54:15","slug":"man-charged-over-rape-of-girl-15-at-oban-football-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715966\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over rape of girl, 15, at Oban football pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl at a football pitch in Oban. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a serious sexual assault near Mossfield Avenue, at Mossfield Stadium, at around 11.15pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, police said a 25-year-old man had been arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Karen MacLennan said: \u201cI would like to thank the public for their assistance during our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl at a football pitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715966","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=715966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}