{"id":428719,"date":"2026-01-25T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428719\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:21:10","slug":"police-search-for-missing-12-year-old-boy-at-venus-bay-in-victorias-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428719\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for missing 12-year-old boy at Venus Bay in Victoria&#8217;s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police and the community are urgently searching for a 12-year-old boy who went missing from a beach in Victoria&#8217;s east on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police say Danny was last seen swimming in waters off Number Four Beach Road in Venus Bay before his family lost sight of him shortly before midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were notified shortly after 1pm sparking a large-scale search involving Victoria Police&#8217;s Air Wing, Water Police Squad, Coast Guard, the SES Life Saving Victoria and other beachgoers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The boy, from Taylors Hill in Melbourne&#8217;s north-west, was wearing a navy rash top and navy blue shorts with a white stripe, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is described as roughly 170 centimetres tall with a thin build, dark short hair and dark eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sunday&#8217;s search was planned to continue until last light and recommence on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and the community are urgently searching for a 12-year-old boy who went missing from a beach in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5300,4,450,13097,144769,451,26212,3,203701,452,453,203700],"class_list":["post-428719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-beach","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-child","tag-gippsland","tag-headlines","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-police-search","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-venus-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}