{"id":8690,"date":"2013-08-07T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:16:44","slug":"ceres-child-rape-suspect-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8690","title":{"rendered":"Ceres child-rape suspect released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/stoprape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2731\" alt=\"stoprape\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/stoprape-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/stoprape-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/stoprape.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man taken into police custody for questioning in connection with the rape of a four-month-old baby girl and a seven-year-old boy has been released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspect was arrested on Monday after the children were sexually assaulted on a farm in Ceres at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western Cape police&#8217;s Andre Traut said the man was released on Tuesday night after being interrogated for 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue our search for the suspect and we\u2019re making an appeal to the public to assist us. They can call Crime Stop on 080 600 1011.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traut said authorities are still searching for at least one more man who they want to question in connection with the assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sniffer dogs will also be taken to the farm where the incident occurred to search for clues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have since released an identikit of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the mother of the seven-year-old boy told Eyewitness News she is heartbroken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The woman, a distraught mother of five, sobbed bitterly saying she is not coping well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her son has had nightmares following the incident and added that the boy hasn&#8217;t been speaking much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The child has since left his mother&#8217;s home and is staying with relatives in a nearby farm at the moment.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warning to rapists<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western Cape Police Commissioner Arno Lamoer on Tuesday issued a stern warning to rapists, saying the man responsible for this incident would be brought to book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lamoer said he&#8217;s confident there will be a breakthrough in this case as investigators are working tirelessly to track down the suspects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said some of his best officers are working on the case, including members of the visible policing and tracking units.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police commissioner later added the incident left him sickened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man taken into police custody for questioning in connection with the rape of a four-month-old baby girl and a seven-year-old boy has been released. The suspect was arrested on Monday after the children were sexually assaulted on a farm in Ceres at the weekend. Western Cape police&#8217;s Andre Traut said the man was released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ceres child-rape suspect released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4867,2171,374,34,4866],"class_list":["post-8690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-arno-lamoer","tag-ceres","tag-child-rape","tag-crime","tag-rape-suspect"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/stoprape.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690","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=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8691,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions\/8691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}