{"id":36742,"date":"2025-12-26T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36742"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:47:04","slug":"man-charged-with-29-alleged-sex-offences-maitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/man-charged-with-29-alleged-sex-offences-maitland\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with 29 alleged sex offences &#8211; Maitland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man will face court today charged with 29 alleged offences following an investigation into alleged sexual assaults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2025, detectives from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District established Strike Force Chariot to investigate alleged sexual assault incidents believed to be linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the investigation, police established that a man had allegedly sexually assaulted three female co-workers from an out of home care provider known to him between August 2023 and January 2025 at locations including Greta, Rutherford, Maitland, Tweed Heads, Banora Point and Moss Vale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following extensive inquiries, police arrested a 27-year-old man at a home in Bolwarra Heights about 4.20pm yesterday (Tuesday 23 December 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was taken to Maitland Police Station where he was charged with 29 offences,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Five counts of sexual intercourse without consent (DV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three counts of sexually touch another person without consent (DV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two counts of aggravated sexual assault &#8211; inflict actual bodily harm on victim (DV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two counts of intentionally choke etc person without consent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intentionally choke etc person with recklessness (DV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choke etc person intend to commit indictable offence (DV), and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sexual intercourse without consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 2 today (Wednesday 24 December 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court today charged with 29 alleged offences following an investigation into alleged sexual assaults. In March 2025, detectives from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District established Strike Force Chariot to investigate alleged sexual assault incidents believed to be linked. During the investigation, police established that a man had allegedly sexually assaulted three female &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/man-charged-with-29-alleged-sex-offences-maitland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with 29 alleged sex offences &#8211; Maitland&#8221;<\/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-36742","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\/36742","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=36742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36743,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742\/revisions\/36743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}