{"id":44302,"date":"2013-09-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/44302\/four-year-old-raped-murderedorpolice-catch-alleged-child-killer\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:46:51","slug":"four-year-old-raped-murderedorpolice-catch-alleged-child-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/09\/12\/four-year-old-raped-murderedorpolice-catch-alleged-child-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-year-old raped, murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katlehong police have arrested a 37-year-old man on charges of rape and murder.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came after a four-year-old girl was found hung in a derelict building in Mofekeng section, Katlehong on Monday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The child had allegedly been raped and then hanged on a mounted steel hook in the building, which is used by residents in the area as a dumping ground.<\/p>\n<p>Her body was discovered by a community member who immediately contacted the SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Upon the police&#8217;s arrival the child&#8217;s half-naked body was found hanging in the building,&#8221; said Capt Mega Ndobe, communications officer for the Katlehong police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her underwear, shoes and some of her clothes were lying on the ground near her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the girl went missing on September 8.<\/p>\n<p>The police started their investigations immediately and followed leads until they arrested the 37-year-old man in Padima section, Katlehong.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the man was a family friend.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges of rape and murder, and the case was postponed until September 19 for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The man was remanded in custody.<\/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='97d01cde59d6cca7a0900f52c09e5f2a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police catch alleged child killer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44309,"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":[989,979,1015,1314,1563,999,998],"class_list":["post-44302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","katlehong","katlehong saps","murder","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44302","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=44302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}