{"id":10964,"date":"2013-10-09T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2013-10-09T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:56:48","slug":"cape-town-teacher-charged-with-raping-12-year-old-pupil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10964","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town teacher charged with raping 12-year old pupil"},"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 Cape Town teacher is set to appear in the Blue Downs Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday in connection with the multiple rape of a 12-year-old pupil, Western Cape police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Frederick van Wyk said the 39-year-old primary school teacher, from Kraaifontein, was arrested earlier this week after the girl&#8217;s father approached the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;According to preliminary investigation, the victim was picked up by the suspect on six different occasions, over a period of several months, while the victim was on her way home from school,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The suspect allegedly took her to his house where he raped her&#8230; at this stage it is not clear why the victim did not come forward earlier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van Wyk said they were investigating the possibility of other pupils being sexually assaulted. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cape Town teacher is set to appear in the Blue Downs Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday in connection with the multiple rape of a 12-year-old pupil, Western Cape police said. Captain Frederick van Wyk said the 39-year-old primary school teacher, from Kraaifontein, was arrested earlier this week after the girl&#8217;s father approached the police. &#8220;According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cape Town teacher charged with raping 12-year old pupil&#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":[818,374,34,6859,36,3681],"class_list":["post-10964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cape-town","tag-child-rape","tag-crime","tag-pupil","tag-rape","tag-teacher"],"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\/10964","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=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10965,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions\/10965"}],"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=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}