{"id":9172,"date":"2013-08-15T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2013-08-15T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:12:46","slug":"arrest-made-in-cape-baby-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9172","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in Cape baby-rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9174\" alt=\"baby_rape\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man will appear in the Ceres Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday in connection with the rape of a four-month-old baby and seven-year-old boy, Western Cape police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lt-Col Andre Traut said the 25-year-old man, a local farmworker, was arrested on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Crimes against children are regarded our top priority, and we will not relax any of our efforts when a suspect in this regard is sought,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are pleased with the outcome of our investigations so far and would like to extend our appreciation to the Ceres community who assisted us during the recent weeks.&#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 boy in the same house was also raped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, the ANC Women&#8217;s League said the baby was recovering from her fourth reconstructive surgery operation.<\/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; ANCWL spokeswoman Nosipho Ntwanambi said.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 32-year-old man was arrested previously, but released because he could not be linked to the case. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in the Ceres Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday in connection with the rape of a four-month-old baby and seven-year-old boy, Western Cape police said. Lt-Col Andre Traut said the 25-year-old man, a local farmworker, was arrested on Wednesday. &#8220;Crimes against children are regarded our top priority, and we will not relax any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arrest made in Cape baby-rape case&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5157,1253,5147,5156,2171],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-andre-traut","tag-arrest","tag-baby-rape","tag-cape","tag-ceres"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/baby_rape.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172","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=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9175,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions\/9175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}