{"id":67915,"date":"2017-06-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/67915\/man-accused-of-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T10:38:22","slug":"man-accused-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/07\/man-accused-of-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man (54) cannot be named yet as the law requires for accused in sexual offence cases to be granted the opportunity to plead before their names be made public.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charge sheet, the man is accused of sexually assaulting a five year old girl by touching her private parts.<\/p>\n<p>He has been released on R500 bail and will appear in court again on 21 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who resides in Rockdale has been charged with sexual assault after an incident that allegedly occurred in April this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":22265,"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":[],"class_list":["post-67915","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\/67915","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=67915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}