{"id":41824,"date":"2016-01-25T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=41824"},"modified":"2016-01-27T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T06:02:49","slug":"breaking-news-suspect-in-bestiality-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/25\/breaking-news-suspect-in-bestiality-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Suspect in bestiality case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just came to light in the Middelburg Magistrate\u2019s Court after the suspect, <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/41815\/condom-sent-for-dna-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tshepo Utla<\/a>, appeared in court minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>The state confirmed that they just received his birth certificate from Home Affairs, which stated that he is in fact 20 years old!<\/p>\n<p>Utla told police on Saturday that he is 17 years old when he was <a href=\"http:\/\/Breaking News: Boy arrested after dog raped, killed\" target=\"_blank\">arrested at Doornkop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested under the Animal Protection Act for bestiality and torturing of an animal after a four month old puppy was found dead at a house.<\/p>\n<p>According to police community members contacted them after they found a man asleep next to a dead dog. The man still had a condom pulled over his penis.<\/p>\n<p>A veterinarian did a postmortem on the dog.<\/p>\n<p>Bail was denied and the case postponed to 1 February for a formal bail application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/41753\/breaking-news-boy-arrested-after-dog-raped-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News: Boy arrested after dog raped, killed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/17274\/hondsaak-man-nooit-vervolg-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hondsaak \u2013 man nooit vervolg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/41815\/condom-sent-for-dna-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Graphic Content) &#8211; Update: Condom sent for DNA testing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect who was arrested for bestiality is not 17, but in fact 20 years old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":41826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}