{"id":8495,"date":"2020-10-02T00:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2020-10-02T00:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:52:47","slug":"child-approach-muswellbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/02\/child-approach-muswellbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Child approach \u2013 Muswellbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance after three children were reportedly approached in the Hunter Valley yesterday.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">12.20pm<\/a> (Thursday 1 October 2020), three children \u2013 aged 11, eight and four \u2013 were playing at the northern end of a reserve near Hunt Place at Muswellbrook, when they saw a man walking towards them.<br \/>\nThe three girls started walking back to their homes when the man called out to the children and pushed all three to the ground.<br \/>\nThe male then attempted to touch the eight-year-old\u2019s face but she pushed him away and the girls ran from the reserve.<br \/>\nThe eldest child called police who attended a short time later and took the girls to their respective homes.<br \/>\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District have commenced inquiries into the incident.<br \/>\nThe man is described as being between 155cm to 165cm tall, in his early to mid-20s, with a dark complexion, medium build, black hair and brown eyes.<br \/>\nAnyone who may have information which could assist investigators is urged to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance after three children were reportedly approached in the Hunter Valley yesterday. About 12.20pm (Thursday 1 October 2020), three children \u2013 aged 11, eight and four \u2013 were playing at the northern end of a reserve near Hunt Place at Muswellbrook, when they saw a man walking towards them. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/02\/child-approach-muswellbrook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Child approach \u2013 Muswellbrook&#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-8495","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\/8495","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=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}