{"id":52873,"date":"2014-02-06T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52873\/man-arrested-for-buhle-park-rapeorwomen-reports-rape-to-elsburg-police\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T07:04:02","slug":"man-arrested-for-buhle-park-rapeorwomen-reports-rape-to-elsburg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/02\/06\/man-arrested-for-buhle-park-rapeorwomen-reports-rape-to-elsburg-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for Buhle Park rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS recently arrested a man for an alleged rape that took place in Buhle Park Phase Four.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made after the victim and her friend reported the rape to officers at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The woman explained that she had been out with friends when the rape took place.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted that she had been drinking and had experienced a blackout.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When she awakened the next morning she knew that something had happened as her underwear was missing.<\/p>\n<p>She immediately asked her friends what had happened the night before and was told that a man had taken advantage of her state and had even dragged her away from her friends at one point.<\/p>\n<p>The friend verified the victim&#8217;s account of events.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to track down the man and he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police, who was on cluster stand-by duty at the time of the arrest, said: &#8220;As police we strongly condemn the abuse of alcohol, as we believe it makes one vulnerable to crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/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='839d3d1e007b19837693fe4f4c419d16'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women reports rape to Elsburg police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":52874,"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":[1041,1804,2808,989,1012,1003,1938,1509,979,2730,999,1689,998],"class_list":["post-52873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-buhle-park","tag-cluster-stand-by-duty","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-elsburg-police","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","buhle park","cluster stand-by duty","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","elsburg police","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","rape","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873","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=52873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}