Police are appealing for information from the public as they investigate reports a woman was sexually touched while walking in the Hunter region earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 5.30pm on Monday (16 May 2022), a 27-year-old woman was walking between Robinson Way and Heather Place, Singleton Heights, pushing a three-year-old child in a pram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police have been told while on Heather Place, a man approached her from behind before sexually touching her. The man did not attempt to touch the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman struggled with the man before she was able to free herself and leave with the pram and child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neither the woman or the child were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She reported the incident to officers from Hunter Valley Police District who have commenced an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police would like to speak to a man who may be able to assist with their inquiries. He is described as being aged in his early 20s, with short curly brown hair and an olive complexion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for information from the public as they investigate reports a woman was sexually touched while walking in the Hunter region earlier this week. About 5.30pm on Monday (16 May 2022), a 27-year-old woman was walking between Robinson Way and Heather Place, Singleton Heights, pushing a three-year-old child in a pram. Police have … Continue reading “Appeal for public information after woman sexually touched \u2013 Hunter region\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16713,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712\/revisions\/16713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}