{"id":157759,"date":"2026-04-14T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=157759"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:25:42","slug":"hattiesburg-man-charged-with-sexual-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/hattiesburg-man-charged-with-sexual-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hattiesburg Man Charged with Sexual Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Man Charged with Sexual Battery On A Minor<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 13 , 2026, an investigator with the<strong> Oxford Police Department<\/strong> was notified by <strong>Child Protective Services<\/strong> about potential sexual assault on a minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the investigation,<strong> Auster Porter<\/strong>, 71, of <strong>Hattiesburg, MS<\/strong> was arrested and charged with Sexual Battery. Porter was taken into custody by<strong> Hattiesburg Police Department<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Porter was then transported to <strong>Lafayette County Detention Center<\/strong> and was taken to a <strong>Municipal Court<\/strong> judge for his initial bond hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thanks to Hattiesburg Police Department for their assistance in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Charged with Sexual Battery On A Minor On March 13 , 2026, an investigator with the Oxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":157760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397,19],"tags":[34132,18390,2537,4728,34133,4,2092],"class_list":["post-157759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-local-news","tag-austin-porter","tag-child-protective-service","tag-hattiesburg","tag-lafayette-county-detention-center","tag-municipal-court","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Auster-Porter-OPD.jpg?fit=1284%2C841&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157762,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157759\/revisions\/157762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}