{"id":10245,"date":"2013-09-12T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T07:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2013-09-12T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T07:27:20","slug":"kzn-man-gets-5-years-for-statutory-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10245","title":{"rendered":"KZN man gets 5 years for statutory rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10080\" alt=\"rape7\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape7-300x131.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape7-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape7.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A 22-year-old man has been jailed for five-years for a statutory rape by the Empangeni Regional Court, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man was sentenced on Wednesday for raping his 14-year-old girlfriend in Ngwelezane area, said Captain Thulani Zwane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened in February when the teenager was sent to the garage and she was delayed by the man on her way back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She came home late and her angry father ordered her to return where she came from, said Zwane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;She went back to her boyfriend and they were involved in sexual activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her mother opened a rape case the following day and the man was arrested. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old man has been jailed for five-years for a statutory rape by the Empangeni Regional Court, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Thursday. The man was sentenced on Wednesday for raping his 14-year-old girlfriend in Ngwelezane area, said Captain Thulani Zwane. The incident happened in February when the teenager was sent to the garage and she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KZN man gets 5 years for statutory rape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[832,36,5829,6122],"class_list":["post-10245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-rape","tag-statutory-rape","tag-teenager"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10246,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions\/10246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}