Family in pain
2007-08-07 10:46
Linza de Jager
Cape Town - The family of murdered Steven Siebert, 6, is still in pain, more than one-and-a-half years after he was brutally killed and sodomised near a holiday house in Plettenberg Bay.
Steven's father, Thomas, spoke to Cape Son in a strained voice on Friday.
Thomas said the family had not been to Plettenberg Bay since the murder of young Steven.
They were on holiday in a rented house in Stableford Street, in the Southern Cape town, when Steven was murdered on December 23 2005.
Paedophile murderer Theunis Olivier confessed to luring Steven from the front garden.
He then took him to an empty house, about 400 metres away.
According to Thomas, Steven's younger brother, Christopher, aged three-and-a-half, still remembered him well and asked questions about him.
He was also in counselling. Nowadays he wore Steven's clothes and played with his toys. Thomas told Cape Son that the family had kept all Steven's clothes and toys.
But the family moved to another house after the murder.
In a letter Thomas addressed to the Cape High Court, the family's pain was clear.
In it Thomas asked the court to bring a speedy end to the trial, as Steven's mom was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Elaine was fortunately not present when the Cape High Court heard the chilling details of Steven's brutal murder.
She was only expected to be in court on the days Olivier is finally sentenced.
- Kaapse Son