{"id":921069,"date":"2022-01-31T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/31\/teacher-assistant-arrested-for-the-alleged-gang-rape-of-pupil-during-extra-maths-lessons\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:28:00","slug":"teacher-assistant-arrested-for-the-alleged-gang-rape-of-pupil-during-extra-maths-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/teacher-assistant-arrested-for-the-alleged-gang-rape-of-pupil-during-extra-maths-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher assistant arrested for the alleged gang-rape of pupil during extra maths lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town – A 24-year-old teacher assistant has appeared in court after being arrested last week (January 25,) for allegedly gang-raping a 17-year-old pupil at the iHlumelo Secondary School in Mbekweni, Paarl.<\/p>\n

According to police, although charges only came to light recently, the incident allegedly occurred on October 30, last year. The learner claims that the incident occurred at the school during extra mathematics classes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is alleged that the learner had gone to the bathroom to relieve herself when the assistant teacher came and grabbed her. The assistant teacher\u2019s \u201cfriend\u201d allegedly pulled down her panties and let the assistant teacher rape her. After raping her, the assistant teacher then handed her over to \u201chis friend\u201d who also raped her.<\/p>\n

The suspects then allegedly threatened the pupil and told her not to tell anyone about the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cA rape case docket was registered on Monday, January 23. The Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Units (FCS) are still investigating this matter,\u201d said Western Cape police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The school declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n

The assistant teacher made his first appearance at Paarl Magistrate Court on Thursday, January 27. Police have not confirmed the arrest of the second suspect.<\/p>\n

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Cape Town – A 24-year-old teacher assistant has appeared in court after being arrested last week (January 25,) for allegedly gang-raping a 17-year-old pupil at the iHlumelo Secondary School in Mbekweni, Paarl. According to police, although charges only came to light recently, the incident allegedly occurred on October 30, last year. The learner claims that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}