{"id":9154,"date":"2013-08-15T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:21:58","slug":"cape-baby-rape-victim-recovering-after-reconstructive-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9154","title":{"rendered":"Cape baby-rape victim recovering after reconstructive surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rape_girls_feet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6705\" alt=\"rape_girls_feet\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rape_girls_feet-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rape_girls_feet-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rape_girls_feet.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A four-month-old baby is recovering from her fourth operation since being raped in Ceres, in the Western Cape, the ANC Women&#8217;s League said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are pleased with the reports that she is steadily recovering after undergoing reconstructive surgery,&#8221; said ANCWL spokeswoman Nosipho Ntwanambi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The rape of these children is not only disheartening, but a horrendous and inhumane act that should be condemned unrelentingly and consistently by all in society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The baby had been sleeping in bed with her parents when a man snatched and raped her on August 3, provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A seven-year-old boy in the same house was also raped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police took a 32-year-old man in for questioning, but he was released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The African National Congress Women&#8217;s League urged the police to use all their resources to arrest the man responsible for the crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ntwanambi said the league would continue organising protests calling for men who committed sexual offences to be removed from society. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-month-old baby is recovering from her fourth operation since being raped in Ceres, in the Western Cape, the ANC Women&#8217;s League said on Tuesday. &#8220;We are pleased with the reports that she is steadily recovering after undergoing reconstructive surgery,&#8221; said ANCWL spokeswoman Nosipho Ntwanambi. &#8220;The rape of these children is not only disheartening, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cape baby-rape victim recovering after reconstructive surgery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4867,5147,2171,36],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-arno-lamoer","tag-baby-rape","tag-ceres","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\/07\/rape_girls_feet.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","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=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}