{"id":16432,"date":"2014-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/16432\/accused-of-rape\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T08:09:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T06:09:50","slug":"accused-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/13\/accused-of-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is alleged that the man raped a boy and also sexually assaulted him during 2008 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose identity is being withheld because he is family of the victim, pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on R10 000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>The case was previously postponed because the accused&#8217;s mother, who gave a statement to police, refused to testify against her son.<\/p>\n<p>The case was postponed until October when trial will resume in the Sexual Offences court in Middelburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Howick in KwaZulu Natal appeared in the Middelburg court on charges of rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":16435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[2012,882,2251,9,1607,2250,1473],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-child","tag-children","tag-children-abuse","tag-local-crime-news","tag-rape","tag-stop-rape-now","tag-violence"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["child","children","children abuse","Crime","rape","Stop Rape Now","violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}