{"id":142691,"date":"2017-01-25T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142691\/man-nabbed-for-alleged-statutory-rape\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:53:45","slug":"man-nabbed-for-alleged-statutory-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/25\/man-nabbed-for-alleged-statutory-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Man nabbed for alleged statutory rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case of statutory rape was opened recently against a 26-year-old man from the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The case was open by the man\u2019s girlfriend after he allegedly forced himself on her 14-year-old sister.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The complainant first suspected something had happened to her sister when she returned home and was reserved, quiet and withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told police that her boyfriend had asked her sister to come to his shack.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen there he told the girl he loved her and then allegedly began to undress her before forcing himself on her and raping her,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to trace the suspect and he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court where his case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other crime articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142629\/forty-warrants-for-traffic-fines-executed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forty warrants for traffic fines executed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142239\/empd-seizes-r20-000-worth-of-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD seizes R20 000 worth of drugs<\/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='050daf3602c1364620a3db6927968132'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man was arrested after allegedly forcing himself on a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":142692,"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-142691","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\/142691","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=142691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}