{"id":140249,"date":"2016-12-09T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140249\/police-investigate-assault\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T06:10:26","slug":"police-investigate-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/09\/police-investigate-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from the Sakhile informal settlement, in Katlehong, claims she was recently assaulted by her 19-year-old boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>She told police, while opening a case at the Katlehong Police Station, that she was talking to a man when her boyfriend approached them.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Furious, he accused her of cheating on him and began to assault her.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that during the attack he hit her with a rock, causing serious injuries.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Using the description given by the victim, police officers were able to find the accused and he was arrested and charged with assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>He was held at the Katlehong Police Station pending his appearance in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139949\/woman-viciously-beaten-by-boyfriend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woman viciously beaten by boyfriend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139379\/father-arrested-for-alleged-rape-of-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Father arrested for alleged rape of daughter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139360\/man-nabbed-for-salon-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon\u2019s livelihood cut short after theft<\/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='bb207230fb440e004dc47afb23ec5f0a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was allegedly assaulted by her jealous boyfriend in Katlehong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":136188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-140249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","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-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","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140249","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=140249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}