{"id":4829,"date":"2014-12-04T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/04\/ex-cake-drummer-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-child-molestation\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:05:14","slug":"ex-cake-drummer-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-child-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/04\/ex-cake-drummer-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-child-molestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Cake drummer gets 15 years in prison for child molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2014\/news\/141215\/pete-mcneal-435.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"293\" \/><br \/>Peter Ivan McNeal, former drummer with Cake, has been jailed for 15 years for molesting a toddler. The 48-year-old was sentenced in Los Angeles for sexually assaulting a  three-year-old girl at a Laurel Canyon Thanksgiving party in 2009, the Los Angeles Times reports. He must also register as a sex offender for life.\u00a0   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>McNeal was found guilty of oral copulation of a child 10 years old or  younger back in March 2013 but was sentenced by Los Angeles County  Superior Court Judge Fred Wapner yesterday (Tuesday 2 December, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>His previous record shows charges for misdemeanour, and being  sentenced to three years probation in relation to a separate incident of  attemping to molest a six-year-old at a Los Angeles school where he was  volunteering.<\/p>\n<p>Cake, who rose to fame in 1996 with second album Fashion Nugget and  single &#8216;The Distance&#8217;, asked McNeal (who has also worked with the likes  of Norah Jones and Brett Dennen) to join the band in 2001 to replace  Todd Roper. He exited the band in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Gigwise<br \/>Image source: People.com<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Ivan McNeal, former drummer with Cake, has been jailed for 15 years for molesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}