{"id":3248,"date":"2024-12-22T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2024-12-22T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:45:42","slug":"court-finally-passes-verdict-on-the-east-legon-accident-involving-the-death-of-two-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/court-finally-passes-verdict-on-the-east-legon-accident-involving-the-death-of-two-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Finally Passes Verdict on the East Legon Accident Involving the Death of Two Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A grandmother is seeking justice after her loved one was involved in a tragic accident in East Legon. She expressed dissatisfaction with the court&#8217;s judgment, which sentenced a 16-year-old boy to six months for causing the accident that claimed two lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_7762.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3252 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/530;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The grandmother, Benneh, spoke to the media, expressing her disappointment with the lenient sentence. &#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable that someone who took two lives would receive such a soft punishment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_7763-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3251 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has sparked nationwide discussion, with many calling for the Ghana Juvenile Justice system to revise the punishment and consider the case as manslaughter, which would carry a more severe sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grandmother is seeking justice after her loved one was involved in a tragic accident in East Legon. She expressed dissatisfaction with the court&#8217;s judgment, which sentenced a 16-year-old boy to six months for causing the accident that claimed two lives.<\/p>\n<p>The grandmother, Benneh, spoke to the media, expressing her disappointment with the lenient sentence. &#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable that someone who took two lives would receive such a soft punishment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The case has sparked nationwide discussion, with many calling for the Ghana Juvenile Justice system to revise the punishment and consider the case as manslaughter, which would carry a more severe sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}