{"id":10829,"date":"2013-10-03T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2013-10-03T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:28:55","slug":"man-raped-his-step-daughter-to-heal-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10829","title":{"rendered":"Man raped his step-daughter &#8216;to heal her&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/childrape3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10449\" alt=\"childrape3\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/childrape3.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>A 60-year-old man has been jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court for raping his teenaged step-daughter, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man was sentenced on Tuesday for raping his daughter for eight years, said Colonel Jay Naicker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The daughter was 16-years-old when he started raping her in 2004.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man told the then sick teenager to sleep with him so she could be healed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was too afraid to report the matter to her family because he threatened to kill her if she did, said Naicker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The girl eventually reported the rape in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Mmamonnye Ngobeni said crimes against women and children remained a priority for the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This conviction gives hope to those that are abused,&#8221; he said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old man has been jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court for raping his teenaged step-daughter, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday. The man was sentenced on Tuesday for raping his daughter for eight years, said Colonel Jay Naicker. The daughter was 16-years-old when he started raping her in 2004. The man told the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man raped his step-daughter &#8216;to heal her&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[374,832,4994,36],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-child-rape","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-pietermaritzburg","tag-rape"],"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\/childrape3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","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=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10830,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions\/10830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}