A man has been charged after allegedly attempting to procure a child in the Hunter Valley Region earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday 7 February 2023, a 14-year-old girl allegedly received messages via a social media platform from an unknown male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A number of messages were exchanged before the person sending the messages attempted to convince the girl to meet him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police were alerted and officers from Hunter Valley Police District commenced an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 8.30pm on Friday 17 February 2023, detectives arrested a 29-year-old man at a home in Cliftleigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was taken to Cessnock Police Station where he was charged with procure child for unlawful sexual activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was refused bail to appear in Newcastle Local Court today (Saturday 18 February 2023) and was formally refused bail to appear before the same Court on Monday 20 February 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after allegedly attempting to procure a child in the Hunter Valley Region earlier this month. On Tuesday 7 February 2023, a 14-year-old girl allegedly received messages via a social media platform from an unknown male. A number of messages were exchanged before the person sending the messages attempted to convince … Continue reading “Man charged over alleged child procurement \u2013 Hunter Valley”<\/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-20247","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\/20247","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=20247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20248,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}