{"id":15212,"date":"2020-04-28T08:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:48:56","slug":"verwood-mother-and-son-assaulted-in-potterne-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/verwood-mother-and-son-assaulted-in-potterne-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Verwood mother and son assaulted in Potterne Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman and her son have been abused and assaulted in Potterne Park after being approached by three boys on mountain bikes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at around 2.05pm on Friday 24th April 2020 when one of the boys verbally abused the woman and spat on both her and her son.<\/p>\n<p>The offender\u2019s saliva landed on the woman\u2019s hair and shoulder and her son\u2019s shoulder. Due to the current concerns over COVID-19 the victims washed themselves and their clothing as soon as they got home.<\/p>\n<p>Police Constable Erin Hill, of Dorset Police, said: \u201cThis was an understandably upsetting incident for the victim and her young son and I am keen to speak to those involved to establish the circumstances of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would urge those involved to come forward, and would urge anyone who witnessed the incident to please get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers investigating the incident are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to get in touch via email 101@dorset.pnn.police.uk or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55200058110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman and her son have been abused and assaulted in Potterne Park after being approached by three boys on mountain bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}