{"id":7858,"date":"2020-08-26T10:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T10:59:41","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-sexual-assault-of-young-girl-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/man-charged-over-alleged-sexual-assault-of-young-girl-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged sexual assault of young girl &#8211; Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in court today charged over the alleged sexual assault of a young girl in the state\u2019s Hunter region two years ago.<br \/>\nIn June this year, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad commenced an investigation following reports a young girl had been sexually abused by a man known to her.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, investigators arrested a 41-year-old man at Campbelltown Police Station just after 5pm yesterday (Tuesday 25 August 2020).<br \/>\nHe was charged with one count of sexual intercourse with a child under age of 10.<br \/>\nPolice will allege in court that the man sexually assaulted the girl \u2013 then aged nine \u2013 while staying in the Newcastle area in 2018.<br \/>\nThe man was refused bail to appear at Campbelltown Local Court today (Wednesday 26 August 2020).<br \/>\nThe Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad is comprised of detectives who are specially trained to investigate matters against children and adults, including sexual assault, serious physical abuse, and extreme cases of neglect.<br \/>\nAnyone with concerns about suspected child abuse or exploitation should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>.<br \/>\nInformation you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. People should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in court today charged over the alleged sexual assault of a young girl in the state\u2019s Hunter region two years ago. In June this year, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad commenced an investigation following reports a young girl had been sexually abused by a man known to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/man-charged-over-alleged-sexual-assault-of-young-girl-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged over alleged sexual assault of young girl &#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-7858","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\/7858","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=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}