{"id":88075,"date":"2018-01-17T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9932352828f3de4545e2763c1e2f6972"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:12:58","slug":"press-release-child-sex-abuser-has-sentence-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88075","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Child sex abuser has sentence increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mark Benfield was originally sentenced to 4 years in prison on the 13 October last year when his case was heard at Portsmouth Crown Court. The Court of Appeal has increased his sentence to 8 years and 6 months, which includes 1 year on licence.<\/p>\n<p>The abuse started after the victim\u2019s 6th birthday, when Benfield was 18, and didn\u2019t stop until 1984, 6 years later. During this period, the victim was sexually assaulted in her foster home a number of times by the offender.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, the Solicitor General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tragic case where the victim was made to feel unsafe in their own home, blighting many precious years of childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome the Court\u2019s decision and hope that the increased sentence brings some comfort and long awaited closure to the victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 57 year old man found guilty of sexual offences with a child has had his prison sentence increased after the Solicitor General referred it as unduly lenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}