{"id":10968,"date":"2013-10-09T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10968"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:03:47","slug":"rape-of-mentally-ill-woman-shocks-community-safety-mec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10968","title":{"rendered":"Rape of mentally ill woman shocks community safety MEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9174\" alt=\"baby_rape\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko expressed shock on Tuesday at the rape of a mentally ill Soweto woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;No stone will be left unturned in the criminal justice system to bring the perpetrator to book,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 47-year-old woman was raped, allegedly by her nephew&#8217;s friend, in Zola on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said the alleged rapist and the nephew were at a shebeen on Saturday night. The man left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nephew, knowing his friend was going to his aunt&#8217;s house in Zola, left the shebeen shortly afterwards, Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He found his friend on top of his aunt and had a fight with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man ran away and was still at large.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We need to stand together as communities and continue to fight against this scourge of people who prey on the vulnerable,&#8221; Mazibuko said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her department was providing medical and legal assistance and counselling for the victim through Ikhaya Lethemba, a centre for abused women and children. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko expressed shock on Tuesday at the rape of a mentally ill Soweto woman. &#8220;No stone will be left unturned in the criminal justice system to bring the perpetrator to book,&#8221; she said in a statement. The 47-year-old woman was raped, allegedly by her nephew&#8217;s friend, in Zola on Saturday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rape of mentally ill woman shocks community safety MEC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6860,34,5895,6861,36],"class_list":["post-10968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-community-safety","tag-crime","tag-faith-mazibuko","tag-mec","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\/08\/baby_rape.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968","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=10968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10969,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions\/10969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}