{"id":8087,"date":"2013-07-30T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2013-07-30T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:27:00","slug":"woman-convicted-of-bestiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8087","title":{"rendered":"Woman convicted of bestiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/legal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8088\" alt=\"legal\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/legal.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>A woman has been convicted of bestiality by the Pretoria Regional Court, according to a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Beeld, Jana Smith, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to four counts of bestiality and one of trying to use a child to create child pornography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an explanation of plea, she reportedly claimed she was manipulated and controlled by her former boyfriend, Morne Fourie, 38, and that he had fantasised about bestiality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newspaper reported that Fourie would appear separately in October on charges of distributing bestiality-related pornography, and of creating and distributing child pornography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newspaper reported that, in her explanation of plea, Smith admitted to having sex with two dogs on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the issue of child pornography, she reportedly said she had a close bond with the seven-year-old child, whom Fourie had asked her to video while bathing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to, but he kept on about it. I then set up the camera, but decided against it switched the camera off before the girl undressed. I&#8217;m very sorry about what happened,&#8221; Smith was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beeld reported that her lawyer Carmelitha Smit submitted in mitigation that Smith had completed Grade\u00a010 in a special school, that she herself had been molested as a child, and that she was manipulated by Fourie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Smith would be sentenced in August. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been convicted of bestiality by the Pretoria Regional Court, according to a report on Tuesday. According to Beeld, Jana Smith, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to four counts of bestiality and one of trying to use a child to create child pornography. In an explanation of plea, she reportedly claimed she was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Woman convicted of bestiality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3208,4465,139],"class_list":["post-8087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bestiality","tag-child-pornography","tag-pretoria"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/legal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087","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=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8089,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions\/8089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}