{"id":34163,"date":"2021-08-26T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/?p=34163"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:03:52","slug":"mendy-charged-with-four-counts-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/mendy-charged-with-four-counts-of-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendy charged with four counts of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy, 27, has been charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against three complainants aged over 16, Cheshire Constabulary said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Metro.co.uk reported that the Premier League champions released a statement which read: \u2018Manchester City can confirm that following his being charged by police today, Benjamin Mendy has been suspended pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:\u00a0 <a title=\"Ronaldo rape case dropped as model withdraws allegation\" href=\"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/ronaldo-rape-case-dropped-as-model-withdraws-allegation\/\">Ronaldo rape case dropped as model withdraws allegation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The matter is subject to a legal process and the Club is therefore unable to make further comment until that process is complete.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy, 27, has been charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against three complainants aged over 16, Cheshire Constabulary said. Metro.co.uk reported that the Premier League champions released a statement which read: \u2018Manchester City can confirm that following his being charged by police today, Benjamin Mendy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,10,3],"tags":[1408,4597,5704],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Benjamin-Mendy.jpg?fit=450%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd18y-8T1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}