{"id":13624,"date":"2014-04-01T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13624"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:35:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:35:37","slug":"gay-man-gang-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13624","title":{"rendered":"Gay man gang-raped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 20-year-old gay man was gang-raped and his mattress burned in Roodepan near Kimberley, Northern Cape police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He was raped in the early hours of Sunday at a house in Lerato Park, Lieutenant Sergio Kock said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if this had been a homophobic attack, Kock said: \u201cWe cannot confirm if it was a homophobic attack or not, that we can&#8217;t say really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five men allegedly forced their way into the house where the man was with his boyfriend. The boyfriend managed to escape. The men allegedly took turns raping him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is further alleged that the suspects set alight a mattress inside the house and later fled the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one had been arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old gay man was gang-raped and his mattress burned in Roodepan near Kimberley, Northern Cape police said on Monday. He was raped in the early hours of Sunday at a house in Lerato Park, Lieutenant Sergio Kock said. Asked if this had been a homophobic attack, Kock said: \u201cWe cannot confirm if it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gay man gang-raped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5439,3039,8762,36],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-gang-rape","tag-gay","tag-homophobic-attack","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\/09\/rape7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13625,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions\/13625"}],"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=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}