{"id":184910,"date":"2024-11-19T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-windhoek-high-court-sentences-father-to-25-years-for-raping-daughter-15\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:57:10","slug":"namibia-windhoek-high-court-sentences-father-to-25-years-for-raping-daughter-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-windhoek-high-court-sentences-father-to-25-years-for-raping-daughter-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Windhoek High Court Sentences Father to 25 Years for Raping Daughter (15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>A man convicted of raping his 15-year-old daughter did irreparable harm to her, a Windhoek High Court judge said before sentencing him to 25 years&#8217; imprisonment on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;Instead of protecting the complainant, the accused violated the sanctity of his own daughter [and these] actions inflicted far-reaching consequences and irreparable harm,&#8221; judge Claudia Claasen said during the sentencing of the convicted man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;The complainant will for the rest of her life have to battle the stigmatisation and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411180513.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of raping his 15-year-old daughter did irreparable harm to her, a Windhoek High Court judge said before sentencing him to 25 years&#8217; imprisonment on Thursday. &#8220;Instead of protecting the complainant, the accused violated the sanctity of his own daughter [and these] actions inflicted far-reaching consequences and irreparable harm,&#8221; judge Claudia Claasen said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6185,9803,7903,6184,4706,724,257,1601,9735,254,1582,5114],"class_list":["post-184910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-daughter","tag-father","tag-high","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-raping","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today","tag-windhoek","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}