{"id":62548,"date":"2014-06-25T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/62548\/five-year-old-is-raped\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T07:44:08","slug":"five-year-old-is-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/06\/25\/five-year-old-is-raped\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-year-old raped in Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested a 28-year-old Makause resident on charges of rape.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the police by the victim&#8217;s mother.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The mother explained to police that she had put her children to bed and then left her shack to join her friends at a nearby fire.<\/p>\n<p>A while later she noticed her children outside their shack and, upon closer inspection, she found her five-year-old daughter naked.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She immediately asked what had happened and the child told her that a man had forced himself on her.<\/p>\n<p>The mother checked her daughter&#8217;s private parts and found that they were swollen and injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police launched a formal investigation into the matter and were able to arrest the man responsible for the rape.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for trail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appeal to all parents to never leave their young children unattended; they are vulnerable not only to these types of crimes, but to other, unexpected events, like shack fires,&#8221; said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/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='e21e84f8ba72f588d88c636b99d3385f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose SAPS arrested a man for child&#8217;s rape and appeared in the Germiston Magistrate Court where the trial was postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":62566,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,1689,998],"class_list":["post-62548","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-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-rape","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","rape","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62548","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=62548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}