{"id":243812,"date":"2003-08-01T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/fury-over-ridiculously-lenient-rape-sentence"},"modified":"2003-08-01T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T17:46:57","slug":"fury-over-ridiculously-lenient-rape-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/fury-over-ridiculously-lenient-rape-sentence","title":{"rendered":"Fury Over Ridiculously Lenient Rape Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family members of a young mentally disturbed rape victim protested outside magistrate&#8217;s court yesterday against what they considered too lenient a jail term for the child&#8217;s attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Clever Wayde Thompson, 20, of 298 Naura Crest, Elizabeth Estates was sentenced to TWO YEARS at her Majesty&#8217;s Prison after admitting to raping the retarded teenager on Friday, July 25.  The protesters  described the sentence as &#8220;unfair.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thompson appeared before Magistrate Marilyn Meeres in Court 5, Bank Lane,  on a charge of unlawful sex with a person suffering  from a mental disorder.  The court was told that he knew she was mentally challenged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murderers get off on manslughter, rapists get two years in nation&#8217;s dysfunctional court system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}