{"id":2689011,"date":"2025-11-06T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2689011\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:53:18","slug":"new-zealand-ex-top-cop-admits-to-having-material-showing-child-abuse-bestiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2689011\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand ex-top cop admits to having material showing child abuse, bestiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AFP048111_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      New Zealand&#8217;s former deputy police commissioner admitted on Thursday to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material, which he had stored on his work devices.<br \/>  Jevon McSkimming, previously the second-highest ranking police officer in New Zealand, was arrested and charged in June with eight counts of possessing objectionable material.<br \/>  The courts had prevented media from reporting his name or other details of the case but his right to anonymity lapsed in August.<br \/>  McSkimming admitted to three representative charges of possessing objectionable material, his lawyer told the Wellington District Court on Thursday.<br \/>  The original charges alleged the 52-year-old had possessed child exploitation and bestiality material between specific dates.<br \/>  One of the charges stated the offenses happened between July 2020 and December 2024.<br \/>  McSkimming was suspended from his job on full pay in December 2024, when an investigation into his conduct was launched.<br \/>  Details of those allegations cannot be reported.<br \/>  He was on leave for six months before his resignation in May.<br \/>  McSkimming will be sentenced in December.<br \/>  New Zealand&#8217;s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers described the case as disgraceful on Thursday.<br \/>  The outcome shows all police, no matter their rank, are accountable to the laws that apply to us all, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s former deputy police commissioner admitted on Thursday to possessing child sexual exploita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2689012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785172],"tags":[98706,169889,528524,32077,939,1670,98751,73191,11802,231,200,125020,78392,6798,17757,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2689011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-jiji","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-1670","14":"tag-98751","15":"tag-73191","16":"tag-11802","17":"tag-231","18":"tag-200","19":"tag-125020","20":"tag-78392","21":"tag-6798","22":"tag-17757","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-482","44":"tag-14115","45":"tag-577","46":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/115503327135068990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}