{"id":9891,"date":"2013-09-02T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2013-09-02T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T05:46:06","slug":"nine-year-old-possibly-raped-before-she-was-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9891","title":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old possibly raped before she was murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9892\" alt=\"rape3\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rape3.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a nine-year-old girl in Knysna, Western Cape police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Bernadine Steyn said the man, 32, was arrested shortly after the little girl&#8217;s body was found on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The deceased&#8230; was playing with her friends&#8230; [on Saturday] morning at approximately 10am when the suspect approached them on foot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He offered to walk with [her] through the bushes to a nearby shop to buy chips. The suspect was seen coming back from the shop alone,&#8221; said Steyn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The girl&#8217;s family reported her missing in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police and community members began searching for her, and her body was found shortly before 9pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;She had an open wound in her neck,&#8221; said Steyn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police were investigating whether she had also been raped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man was arrested and charged with murder. He was expected to appear in the Knysna Magistrate&#8217;s Court soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a nine-year-old girl in Knysna, Western Cape police said on Sunday. Captain Bernadine Steyn said the man, 32, was arrested shortly after the little girl&#8217;s body was found on Saturday night. &#8220;The deceased&#8230; was playing with her friends&#8230; [on Saturday] morning at approximately 10am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nine-year-old possibly raped before she was murdered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[374,5746,40,36],"class_list":["post-9891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-child-rape","tag-knysa","tag-murder","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\/09\/rape3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891","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=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}