{"id":10981,"date":"2013-10-10T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2013-10-10T07:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:02:49","slug":"raping-cape-teacher-may-have-sexually-assaulted-other-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10981","title":{"rendered":"Raping Cape teacher may have sexually assaulted other pupils"},"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 Cape Town teacher accused of raping a 12-year-old pupil appeared in the Blue Downs Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday, said Western Cape police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter was postponed to October 24. He remained in custody, said Captain Frederick van Wyk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 39-year-old primary school teacher 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 police were investigating the possibility that other pupils were sexually assaulted. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cape Town teacher accused of raping a 12-year-old pupil appeared in the Blue Downs Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday, said Western Cape police. The matter was postponed to October 24. He remained in custody, said Captain Frederick van Wyk. The 39-year-old primary school teacher was arrested earlier this week after the girl&#8217;s father approached the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raping Cape teacher may have sexually assaulted other pupils&#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":[818,34,36,3681],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cape-town","tag-crime","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\/childrape3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","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=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10982,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions\/10982"}],"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=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}