{"id":1170832,"date":"2026-08-26T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170832\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:18:13","slug":"leeds-man-charged-over-alleged-childrens-home-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170832\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds man charged over alleged children&#8217;s home abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A 66-year-old man has been charged with a string of non-recent child sex offences alleged to have taken place at a children&#8217;s home in Leeds.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zephaniah McIntosh is accused of one count of indecent assault and four counts of rape of a female under the age of 16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Yorkshire Police said the offences were reported to have taken place between 2001 and 2002 and related to a girl who was aged 15 at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIntosh, of the Harehills area of Leeds, is due to appear at Leeds Magistrates Court on 2 October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old man has been charged with a string of non-recent child sex offences alleged to have taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1170833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-1170832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117163190244151621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}