{"id":6533,"date":"2024-12-09T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:51:28","slug":"shurugwi-teacher-in-court-for-rape-of-17-year-old-pupil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"Shurugwi Teacher in Court for Rape of 17-Year-Old Pupil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A male teacher at a Shurugwi boarding school has appeared in court facing a rape charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teacher, who denies the charge, allegedly raped a 17-year-old female pupil during an individual extra lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I did not hold extra lessons with the pupil,&#8221; the teacher denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The minor is being used by teachers I have bad blood with.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teacher also alleged that he had recently stopped the pupil from stealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident allegedly occurred on September 16 at the school. The pupil reported the incident, leading to the teacher&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case is being tried at Gweru Magistrates Court, with Tafadzwa Guzete prosecuting. The teacher was remanded out of custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent A male teacher at a Shurugwi boarding school has appeared in court facing a rape charge. The teacher, who denies the charge, allegedly raped a 17-year-old&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}