{"id":8083,"date":"2020-09-08T20:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:47:52","slug":"former-tennis-coach-charged-over-alleged-indecent-assaults-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/former-tennis-coach-charged-over-alleged-indecent-assaults-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Former tennis coach charged over alleged indecent assaults &#8211; Hunter region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former tennis coach will face court today charged following an investigation into alleged child indecent assault offences in the Hunter region.<br \/>\nIn June 2017, detectives from Hunter Valley Police District commenced an investigation into alleged indecent assault offences committed against a teenage girl in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, a 57-year-old man, was issued with a Court Attendance Notice on Thursday 30 July 2020 for the offences of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indecent assault<\/li>\n<li>Incite aggravated indecency victim under 16 and under authority (three counts)<\/li>\n<li>Incite aggravated indecency victim over 16 and under authority (two counts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police will allege in court that the man, who was a tennis coach, indecently assaulted a girl he was coaching \u2013 aged between 13 and 17 at the time \u2013 on multiple occasions in the East Maitland and Hunter region.<br \/>\nHe is due to appear at Maitland Local Court today (Wednesday 9 September 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former tennis coach will face court today charged following an investigation into alleged child indecent assault offences in the Hunter region. In June 2017, detectives from Hunter Valley Police District commenced an investigation into alleged indecent assault offences committed against a teenage girl in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Following extensive inquiries, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/former-tennis-coach-charged-over-alleged-indecent-assaults-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Former tennis coach charged over alleged indecent assaults &#8211; Hunter region&#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-8083","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\/8083","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=8083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}