{"id":105517,"date":"2015-11-20T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/105517\/man-arrested-for-statutory-rape\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:46:52","slug":"man-arrested-for-statutory-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/20\/man-arrested-for-statutory-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for statutory rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of a young girl from the Marathon informal settlement recently opened a case of statutory rape after their daughter was allegedly raped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parents were worried when the girl did not return home from school as she normally did.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen she did arrive home she appeared depressed,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s mother became suspicious and, with the help of her neighbour, they questioned the girl.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe child told her mother that an unknown man had taken her to his shack, where he raped her,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to trace the 28-year-old accused and arrested him on a charge of statutory rape.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other crime articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/102608\/statistics-show-increase-in-rape-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics show increase in rape cases<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89793\/dog-poisoners-hit-mimosa-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dog poisoners hit Mimosa Park \u2014 16 dogs poisoned in two weeks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89887\/be-aware-of-this-crime-tactic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be aware of this crime tactic<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='c8b79b414976ddca72cb73582ac889d3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police arrested a man who allegedly raped a young girl in the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":105518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-105517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}