{"id":38420,"date":"2018-10-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/canadian-court-sentences-former-umuseso\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:20:38","slug":"canadian-court-sentences-former-umuseso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/canadian-court-sentences-former-umuseso\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian court sentences former Umuseso journalist to 32 months for sexual assault of minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His case was tried by Saint Joseph Court in Canada as reported by a Canadian newspaper, La Voix du Sud.<\/p>\n<p>Mbonigaba, 45, was convicted last April of four of the seven charges against him. <\/p>\n<p>The charges were related to touching and sexual assault on three teenage girls between September 2012 and June 2014, as well as computer lures.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jean-Paul Aubin also ruled that he provides a DNA sample, a 10-year weapons prohibition, and upon release, prohibited from going close to places frequented by three-year-olds.  <\/p>\n<p>He was also declared a sex offender in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>Mbonigaba\u2019s case was heard in a closed session and since July 2016, a rule preventing the disclosure of the details of the proceedings had been released.<\/p>\n<p>Mbonigaba worked for Umuseso Newspaper before he left Rwanda to Canada where he worked as a volunteer at Alpha Bellechasse Foundation which later sacked him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ismael Mbonigaba, a Rwandan resident of Saint-Anselme, Quebec in Canada was on Friday sentenced to 32 months imprisonment after being found guilty of sexual assault on minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}