{"id":110063,"date":"2020-02-19T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110063"},"modified":"2020-02-19T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:48:39","slug":"man-sentenced-attempted-kidnapping-aerorand-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/19\/man-sentenced-attempted-kidnapping-aerorand-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for attempted kidnapping in Aerorand, Middelburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sthembiso Amon Mchumu (36) was also declared unfit to carry a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in August 2018 and the girl was saved when a group of bricklayers, who were working nearby, heard her scream and came to her rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Mchumu fled leaving behind his car. It was later established that the car was rented in Johannesburg, leading to Mchumu\u2019s arrest in Ladysmith four months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who tried to kidnap a girl in Aerorand, by grabbing her next to the road and dragging her to his car, was sentenced to five years imprisonment as well as a five years suspended sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":110064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23424,9,23425,10010,23422,23426,9380,12898,23423,10333],"class_list":["post-110063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-child-abductions-in-middelburg","tag-local-crime-news","tag-kidnappings-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-man-sentenced-for-attempted-kidnapping","tag-man-sentenced-to-prison-ofter-attempted-child-abduction","tag-middelburg-crime","tag-middelburg-news","tag-sthembiso-amon-mchumu","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["child abductions in middelburg","Crime","kidnappings in middelburg","local news","man sentenced for attempted kidnapping","man sentenced to prison ofter attempted child abduction","middelburg crime","middelburg news","sthembiso amon mchumu","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}