{"id":13450,"date":"2014-03-18T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T10:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T10:01:30","slug":"truck-driver-arrested-for-kidnapping-raping-6-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13450","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver arrested for kidnapping, raping 6-year old"},"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>On 10 March 2014 at 15:00, \u00a0a six-year-old victim was returning home from school \u00a0in the Clairwood Area when she went missing. After a frantic search for the child she was found the following morning at\u00a003:10 in the bush along Edwin Swales Drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The child related to police that she was kidnapped by a truck driver who dragged her into a bush, tied her up and raped her. It is alleged that he thereafter assaulted her with a brick on her head and left her in the bush. The child had sustained bruises on her body and her face was swollen from the assault. After interviewing the child the\u00a0Brighton Beach\u00a0Family Violence Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit\u00a0began their investigation by interviewing all trucking companies in the area. On 15 \u00a0March the members made a breakthrough after the suspects employer confirmed that he found items belonging to the victim in one of his trucks. Police questioned the suspect at\u00a0his place of employment in Phoenix where he confessed to the crime. The suspect\u00a0(38) was then arrested for three counts of rape, attempted murder and kidnapping. He will appear in the Durban Magistrates\u2019\u00a0Court this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni\u00a0welcomed the arrest.\u00a0\u201cWe are glad that this monster is behind bars where he can do no more harm to our innocent children. We once again call on parents to be aware that there are such fiends amongst us that will commit the most heinous acts of violence on our children should they be present with the opportunity. We are responsible for the safety of our children and need to ensure that they are not exposed to these criminals,\u201d she said. &#8211; South African Police media service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 March 2014 at 15:00, \u00a0a six-year-old victim was returning home from school \u00a0in the Clairwood Area when she went missing. After a frantic search for the child she was found the following morning at\u00a003:10 in the bush along Edwin Swales Drive. \u00a0The child related to police that she was kidnapped by a truck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truck driver arrested for kidnapping, raping 6-year old&#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":[832,36,8673],"class_list":["post-13450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-rape","tag-truck-driver"],"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\/13450","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=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13451,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions\/13451"}],"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=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}