{"id":138066,"date":"2016-11-14T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=138066"},"modified":"2016-11-14T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:54:10","slug":"woman-escapes-brutal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/14\/woman-escapes-brutal-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman escapes brutal attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Makause informal settlement woman was recently assaulted, allegedly by her 23-year-old ex-boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>While opening a case against him with the Primrose police she told officers that she was at home when the accused arrived.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe told police that he wanted to take their son out and when she questioned where he was taking him the suspect became violent,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-boyfriend allegedly attacked the victim, who has a protection order against him, and would not stop.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe managed to escape and ran to the local sports grounds where there was a community meeting,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested and charged with assault.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where the case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137975\/man-stabbed-with-beer-bottle-in-altercation-with-girlfriend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man stabbed with beer bottle in altercation with girlfriend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137922\/skull-found-in-katlehong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skull found in Katlehong<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137353\/police-warn-motorists-not-to-pick-up-hitch-hikers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police warn motorists not to pick up hitch-hikers<\/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='6bc75205ee3cfb0e614f66ad87bc8cb7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was forced to flee to a nearby community meeting to escape a brutal assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":138070,"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-138066","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\/138066","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}