{"id":141783,"date":"2017-01-09T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141783\/elderly-woman-beaten-and-raped-in-katlehong\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:05:09","slug":"elderly-woman-beaten-and-raped-in-katlehong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/09\/elderly-woman-beaten-and-raped-in-katlehong\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman beaten and raped in Katlehong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old woman was recently beaten and raped in the Phooko section of Katlehong North.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alleged that a 24-year-old man beat the victim with a stick before raping her, when she was using an outside toilet in the early hours of the morning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe victim had to be taken to hospital for medical treatment after the incident,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p>\n<p>A case of rape was opened at the Katlehong North Police Station and officers began searching for the suspect.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was later arrested and will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141655\/accused-fires-five-shots-at-fleeing-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Accused fires five shots at fleeing victim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140383\/community-marches-against-substance-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community marches against substance abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139158\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-of-suspected-dagga-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tip-off leads to arrest of suspected dagga dealers<\/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='45f66c06bea2d2816600f249780bac40'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katlehong North police recently arrested a man after he allegedly beat and raped an elderly woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141784,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1015,1034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-141783","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-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","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","katlehong","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141783","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=141783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}