{"id":43621,"date":"2013-09-11T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/43621\/rape-suspect-caught-by-communityorcommunity-catches-rape-accused\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:33:49","slug":"rape-suspect-caught-by-communityorcommunity-catches-rape-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/09\/11\/rape-suspect-caught-by-communityorcommunity-catches-rape-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Community catches rape accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man was arrested by the Primrose police in the Makause informal settlement recently on a charge of rape.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the accused visited the victim and told her that he was selling second-hand clothes and shoes and if she wanted to look at them she must accompany him to his shack.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The woman went with him to have a look at the clothes but when they arrived at the shack he allegedly locked the door, pushed the victim on to the bed, removed her clothes and raped her,&#8221; said Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was caught by members of the community and handed over to the police, who then arrested him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The management of the Primrose SAPS thank the community members for handing the suspect over to the police and encourage them not to assault suspects when they catch them,&#8221; Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>The man appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court and the matter was postponed for bail application.<\/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='9fc497b1718cabc904e5af82c57bae53'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rape suspect caught by the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[989,979,1288,999,1000,997,1689,998],"class_list":["post-43621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-makause-informal-settlement","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-rape","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","makause informal settlement","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","rape","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43621","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=43621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}