{"id":4066,"date":"2013-03-16T05:43:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2013-03-18T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T09:22:02","slug":"young-black-man-gets-22-years-for-raping-85-year-old-disabled-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4066","title":{"rendered":"Young black man gets 22 years for raping 85-year old disabled woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4067\" title=\"hammer\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man was sentenced to 22 years&#8217; imprisonment by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday for rape, KwaZulu-Natal police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sibusiso Didis Nkosi, 26, was found guilty of raping an 85-year-old disabled women in her room at an old age home in Paulpietersburg shortly after midnight on March 12, 2011, Captain Thulani Zwane said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He entered the room through a door that was not locked and raped the victim. The accused fled the scene on foot,&#8221; Zwane said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkosi was arrested shortly after the attack and charged with the rape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The case was transferred to Vryheid family violence, child and sexual offences unit members, who collected all required evidence by the court for the purpose of good conviction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zwane said Nkosi was denied bail and appeared in court on various occasions until he was convicted and sentenced in the High Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Lt-Gen Mmamonye Ngobeni said: &#8220;We as [the] South African Police Service condemn such brutal attacks on vulnerable elderly women by these heartless criminals who do not respect the rights of women and children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Sibusiso Nkosi, like any other criminals already convicted by our courts, do not deserve to be in our community and this sentence will send a strong message to others who might think of committing such crimes.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was sentenced to 22 years&#8217; imprisonment by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday for rape, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Sibusiso Didis Nkosi, 26, was found guilty of raping an 85-year-old disabled women in her room at an old age home in Paulpietersburg shortly after midnight on March 12, 2011, Captain Thulani Zwane said. &#8220;He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young black man gets 22 years for raping 85-year old disabled woman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,2613,65,36,2614,12250],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-disabled-persons","tag-race","tag-rape","tag-sibusiso-didis-nkosi","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","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=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}