{"id":6299,"date":"2020-05-01T03:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2020-05-01T03:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:04:53","slug":"two-teens-charged-after-allegedly-spitting-at-train-staff-blacktown-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/two-teens-charged-after-allegedly-spitting-at-train-staff-blacktown-railway-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teens charged after allegedly spitting at train staff &#8211; Blacktown Railway Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers have been charged after allegedly spitting and assaulting train staff at Blacktown Railway Station last week.<br \/>\nAbout 1pm last Thursday (23 April 2020), a teenage girl attempted to enter Blacktown Railway Station, when she was stopped and spoken to by a Sydney Trains employee about smoking at the station.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s alleged the girl yelled and spat at the employee, a 56-year-old man, before a teenage boy, who was known to the girl, ran over and coughed and spat in his face.<br \/>\nAnother Sydney Trains employee, a 53-year-old woman, intervened and was allegedly punched in the head.<br \/>\nA third employee and security also assisted; however, the youths ran from the scene.<br \/>\nOfficers from Police Transport Command were notified and commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, officers arrested a 17-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy at a home in Pendle Hill about 11.30am yesterday (Thursday 30 April 2020).<br \/>\nThey were taken to Parramatta Police Station where the girl was charged with smoke in or on public passenger vehicle, train, public area and not comply noticed direction re spitting\/\/coughing \u2013 COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe boy was charged with two counts of common assault and not comply noticed direction re spitting\/\/coughing \u2013 COVID-19.<br \/>\nThey were both granted strict conditional bail to appear at a children\u2019s court on Tuesday 14 July 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers have been charged after allegedly spitting and assaulting train staff at Blacktown Railway Station last week. About 1pm last Thursday (23 April 2020), a teenage girl attempted to enter Blacktown Railway Station, when she was stopped and spoken to by a Sydney Trains employee about smoking at the station. It\u2019s alleged the girl &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/two-teens-charged-after-allegedly-spitting-at-train-staff-blacktown-railway-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two teens charged after allegedly spitting at train staff &#8211; Blacktown Railway Station&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","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=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}