{"id":19274,"date":"2019-02-19T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19274"},"modified":"2019-02-19T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:28:07","slug":"it-was-not-the-worst-kind-of-rape-hiv-man-appeals-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/it-was-not-the-worst-kind-of-rape-hiv-man-appeals-life-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was not the worst kind of rape&#8217;: HIV+ man appeals life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/oCvevcTR7aCO9w1qshoD_praoRYKM1TS9oPvTVRAQ3Nd_LvkcMISFpjQoKZckfnIW8M9kIZE7CnNhqUv6tuY=s750\" alt=\"The victim did not contract HIV, so it could have been much worse, says a rapist trying to overturn his conviction.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"description\">The victim did not contract HIV, so it could have been much worse, says a rapist trying to overturn his conviction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-text\">\n<p>While the high court conceded that a rapist was intelligent, in its sentencing it showed it did not think his defense was particularly clever.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old HIV-positive man from the small Eastern Cape town of Patensie argued that it was not \u201cthe worst kind of rape\u201d because his victim did not contract HIV.<\/p>\n<p>TimesLIVE has withheld the man\u2019s name to protect his victim. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-02-19-it-was-not-the-worst-kind-of-rape-hiv-man-appeals-life-sentence\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>While the high court conceded that a rapist was intelligent, in its sentencing it showed it did not think his defense was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}