{"id":31843,"date":"2026-06-15T21:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/31843\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:36:21","slug":"11yo-girl-targeted-in-shock-act-on-cbd-tram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/31843\/","title":{"rendered":"11yo girl targeted in shock act on CBD tram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have released an image of a man they believe can assist with their investigation after an 11-year-old girl was \u201cupskirted\u201d on a Melbourne tram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Victoria Police say the girl was travelling through the Melbourne CBD on the route 57 tram between 8.25am and 8.45am on May 28 when she noticed an \u201cunknown man\u201d sitting across from her.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A digital composite image of a man police believe could assist with their inquiries. Picture: Victoria Police\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1023\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/65513fdbac9baebf289bcac45ccef479.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A digital composite image of a man police believe could assist with their inquiries. Picture: Victoria Police<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"COVID MELBOURNE\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/42abb37fdd752d74fd3c9e47dfa3caef.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on a tram in Melbourne\u2019s CBD. Picture: NewsWire \/ Ian Currie<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cInvestigators have been told the man took inappropriate images of the girl before disembarking the tram at the intersection of Errol and Quensberry Streets in North Melbourne,\u201d a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe girl continued to school where she reported the matter and police were subsequently notified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the incident, police released a sketch of a man they believe can assist with their inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is \u201cperceived to be caucasian in appearance, approximately 20-30 years old with slightly curly blond shoulder-length hair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was wearing a knitted burnt orange and brown jumper with jeans, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have urged anybody who may know the man, or who witnessed the incident, to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released an image of a man they believe can assist with their investigation after an 11-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,29204,29203,1373],"class_list":["post-31843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-melbourne-cbd","tag-melbourne-tram","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}