Sex Crimes Squad detectives have charged a man over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the Newcastle area earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday 15 August 2025, police received a report of an alleged sexual assault in the Newcastle area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District arrived and were told a 14-year-old girl had been approached by an unknown man about 1.30am that day, while she was waiting at Hamilton Train Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police were further told the man followed the girl as she left the station before allegedly sexually assaulting her on Fern Street, Islington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The girl was taken to hospital for assessment and detectives attached to State Crime Command\u2019s Sex Crimes Squad commenced Strike Force Keyneton to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7am yesterday (Monday 25 August 2025), strike force detectives \u2013 with assistance from State Crime Command\u2019s Raptor Squad \u2013 executed a search warrant at a home on Campden Street, Thornton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the search, strike force detectives located and seized clothing, a backpack and an electronic device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the search, a 37-year-old man was arrested at the scene before being taken to Maitland Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was charged with have sexual intercourse with child between 14 and 16 years old and fail to comply with digital evidence access order direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Local Court 2 today (Tuesday 26 August 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sex Crimes Squad detectives have charged a man over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the Newcastle area earlier this month. On Friday 15 August 2025, police received a report of an alleged sexual assault in the Newcastle area. Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District arrived and were told a 14-year-old … Continue reading “Sex Crimes Squad detectives charge man over the alleged sexual assault of teenage girl \u2013 Newcastle”<\/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-34513","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\/34513","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=34513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34514,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513\/revisions\/34514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}