{"id":4322,"date":"2019-11-21T04:57:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2019-11-21T04:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:57:48","slug":"additional-alleged-sexual-assault-charges-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/additional-alleged-sexual-assault-charges-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional alleged sexual assault charges &#8211; Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Newcastle man has been charged with an additional 45 sexual assault offences following an eight-month investigation.<br \/>\nIn March 2019, detectives attached to Newcastle City Police District commenced an investigation following reports of alleged sexual and indecent assaults occurring between 2005 and 2014.<br \/>\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in August and charged with 10 offences, he remains before the courts on these matters.<br \/>\nFollowing further inquiries, yesterday (Wednesday 20 November 2019) the same man was taken to Newcastle Police Station and arrested.<br \/>\nHe has been charged with a further 45 offences, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aggravated sexual assault (x26)<\/li>\n<li>Sexual intercourse without consent<\/li>\n<li>Aggravated indecent assault (x5)<\/li>\n<li>Indecent assault (x5)<\/li>\n<li>Common assault<\/li>\n<li>Incite person under age of 16 to commit act of indecency (x7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He remains bail refused to face Newcastle Local Court on Thursday 19 December 2019.<br \/>\nInvestigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Newcastle man has been charged with an additional 45 sexual assault offences following an eight-month investigation. In March 2019, detectives attached to Newcastle City Police District commenced an investigation following reports of alleged sexual and indecent assaults occurring between 2005 and 2014. A 32-year-old man was arrested in August and charged with 10 offences, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/additional-alleged-sexual-assault-charges-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Additional alleged sexual assault charges &#8211; Newcastle&#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-4322","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\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}