{"id":70691,"date":"2025-04-02T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/02\/new-zealand-girl-sent-psych-ward-identity-mix-up"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:19:42","slug":"outrage-in-new-zealand-after-11-year-old-girl-sent-to-psychiatric-ward-and-drugged-in-identity-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70691","title":{"rendered":"Outrage in New Zealand after 11-year-old girl sent to psychiatric ward and drugged in identity mix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report finds police mistook girl for missing woman in blunder that has appalled political leaders<\/p>\n<p>An 11-year-old girl was restrained, injected with anti-psychotic drugs and placed on a mental health ward after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> police mistook her for a missing woman, a report found on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials and police have scrambled to explain the mix-up, which has appalled political leaders and stoked outrage across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/02\/new-zealand-girl-sent-psych-ward-identity-mix-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report finds police mistook girl for missing woman in blunder that has appalled political leadersAn 11-year-old girl was restrained, injected with anti-psychotic drugs and placed on a mental health ward after New Zealand police mistook her for a missin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70691\/revisions\/70692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}