{"id":3502,"date":"2026-09-22T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:22:42","slug":"man-sentenced-to-14-years-for-rape-and-sexual-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/man-sentenced-to-14-years-for-rape-and-sexual-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 14 years for rape and sexual offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Zealand:<\/strong> A 35-year-old man, Scott James Southwood, was sentenced to <strong>14 years in prison<\/strong> after pleading guilty to rape, unlawful sexual connection, assault with a weapon and failing to stop. New Zealand Police said the case had now concluded in court, while further details were restricted by suppression orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Action to Be Taken<\/strong><br>Survivors of sexual violence should have access to confidential reporting, specialist support and legal assistance throughout the investigation and court process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand: A 35-year-old man, Scott James Southwood, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape, unlawful sexual connection, assault with a weapon and failing to stop. New Zealand Police said the case had now concluded in court, while further details were restricted by suppression orders. Action to Be TakenSurvivors of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}