{"id":965798,"date":"2024-07-15T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965798"},"modified":"2024-07-15T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:12:45","slug":"northern-cape-man-gets-24-years-for-rape-of-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/northern-cape-man-gets-24-years-for-rape-of-a-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Cape man gets 24-years for rape of a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 47-year-old Northern Cape man, who was found guilty of statutory rape, grooming a minor and child pornography, has been sentenced to 24-years behind bars by the Port Nolloth Magistrate&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was the neighbour of the minor, had sex with the 13-year-old girl, recorded himself and also exposed her to pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The recorded sex video of the girl with the perpetrator was discovered on her phone by her father who laid a charge with the police.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police spokesperson, Sergio Kock elaborates, \u201cOn October 27, the father of the victim found a video on his 13-year-old daughter&#8217;s cellphone of her having sex with the 47-year-old neighbour and laid a formal charge with police. The perpetrator was immediately arrested in Port Nolloth and sentenced on July 12 as follows; Count one: statutory rape, Six years imprisonment; Count two: exposing a child to pornography, six years imprisonment; Count three, grooming of a child, six years imprisonment; Count four: using a child for pornography, six years imprisonment. Counts two to four will run concurrently, hence the accused will effectively serve a 12-year prison sentence for the aforementioned crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man was the neighbour of the minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[329,330,331,332],"class_list":["post-965798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-12-year-sentence","tag-47-year-old-man-rapes-his-13-year-old-neighbour","tag-sentences-to-run-concurrently","tag-statutory-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}