{"id":47633,"date":"2016-04-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/47633\/in-court-for-bestiality\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:23:20","slug":"in-court-for-bestiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/29\/in-court-for-bestiality\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: In court for bestiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tshepo Utla (20) is charged under the Sexual Offences Act for bestiality and under the Animal Protection Act for torturing of an animal.<\/p>\n<p>Utla was arrested after neighbours called the police and stated that they found a man next to a dead four month old puppy.<\/p>\n<p>A condom, which was apparently still over the suspect&#8217;s penis when he was found, was sent to the police forensic department for DNA testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A postmortem was done on the dog and a report was given to the SPCA and police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The case was postponed to 4 May for further investigation and DNA tests.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous stories here:<\/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) \u2013 Update: Condom sent for DNA testing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/41824\/breaking-news-suspect-in-bestiality-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News: Suspect in bestiality case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man from Doornkop who was arrested on 23 January on a charge of bestiality, briefly appeared in court again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":47634,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47633","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=47633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}