{"id":8945,"date":"2020-10-30T00:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:28:57","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-sexual-touching-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/man-charged-over-alleged-sexual-touching-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged sexual touching \u2013 Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court after allegedly sexually touching two women at a service station near Lake Macquarie.<br \/>\nLast Saturday (24 October 2020) and Sunday (25 October 2020), two 22-year-old women were working at a service station in Cooranbong, when they were allegedly sexually touched by a man who is known to them.<br \/>\nThe incident was reported to officers from Lake Macquarie Police District on Monday (26 October 2020), who commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, police arrested a 62-year-old man at Cooranbong about 9am yesterday (Thursday 29 October 2020).<br \/>\nHe was taken to Toronto Police Station where he was charged with five counts of sexually touch another person without consent.<br \/>\nThe man was granted strict conditional bail to appear before Toronto Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/6\">on Tuesday 15 December 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court after allegedly sexually touching two women at a service station near Lake Macquarie. Last Saturday (24 October 2020) and Sunday (25 October 2020), two 22-year-old women were working at a service station in Cooranbong, when they were allegedly sexually touched by a man who is known to them. The incident &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/man-charged-over-alleged-sexual-touching-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged over alleged sexual touching \u2013 Lake Macquarie&#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-8945","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\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}