{"id":11537,"date":"2013-11-05T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11537"},"modified":"2013-11-05T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:13:39","slug":"horrific-find-of-8-year-olds-body-on-the-east-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11537","title":{"rendered":"Horrific find of 8-year old&#8217;s body on the East Rand"},"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>The partly burnt body of an eight-year-old boy has been found in a field in the Ramaphosa informal settlement on the East Rand, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The boy was found dead with socks stuffed in his mouth and a used condom was found next to his body,&#8221; said Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eight-year-old was reported missing on Monday at the Reiger Park police station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was last seen on Sunday evening playing with friends in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His body was found on Monday afternoon by a man walking past the field in Ramaphosa. He alerted the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The body matched the description of the boy who was reported missing earlier on Monday,&#8221; Mofokeng said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case of rape and murder had been opened. No arrests had been made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police appealed for any information that could help them find the perpetrator. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partly burnt body of an eight-year-old boy has been found in a field in the Ramaphosa informal settlement on the East Rand, police said on Tuesday. &#8220;The boy was found dead with socks stuffed in his mouth and a used condom was found next to his body,&#8221; said Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng. The eight-year-old was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horrific find of 8-year old&#8217;s body on the East Rand&#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":[6978,374,34,3730,40,36,7300,1409],"class_list":["post-11537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-child-murder","tag-child-rape","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-murder","tag-rape","tag-reiger-park","tag-sadism"],"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\/11537","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=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11538,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions\/11538"}],"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=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}