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Status: Sentenced to life in prison on August 8,
2007
Theunis Olivier sentenced
Iol.co.za
August 08, 2007
Paedophile child killer Theunis Olivier was sentenced
to life in prison on Wednesday for the murder of six-year-old Steven
Siebert.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Essa Moosa said the
cold-blooded nature of the murder was an aggravating factor.
"What is aggravating in your evidence is that while
you strangled the child you watched him die with no emotion."
Judge Moosa sentenced Oliver to 14 years for indecent
assault and 10 years for kidnapping. All the sentences are to run
concurrently.
Steven's parents, Thomas and Elaine Siebert, sat
quietly as the judge spoke.
Olivier showed no emotion throughout sentencing.
Steven was found dead close to Olivier's house in
Plettenberg Bay in December 2005. The Sieberts, who live in Johannesburg,
were on holiday in the resort at the time.
Moosa said the nature of the indecent assault had led
the court to hand down a harsher sentence than the prescribed 10-year
minimum.
"The indecent assault was particularly gruesome, as
it involved inflicting bodily harm on an unsuspecting child of six years
old."
The judge said the kidnapping was "the trigger" that
set the crime in motion.
Afterwards, Steven's parents said they were
encouraged by the support they had received from the community.
Elaine Siebert said she felt no sympathy for Olivier.
"He made conscious choices as an adult. He is a victim of his own crime."
I abused 200 boys, says child-killer
August 04 2007
By Clayton Barnes
Convicted child-killer Theunis Christian
Olivier told police after his arrest that he had sexually molested more
than 200 boys.
His perverted career, which he told
police had lasted for 30 years, ended in December 2005 when he was
arrested for the murder of six-year-old Steven Siebert in Plettenberg
Bay after he enticed the boy away from outside his parents' holiday home.
Olivier was found guilty in the Cape High
Court on Tuesday of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering Steven.
Olivier's trial, which has horrified
South Africa, highlighted the fact that there is no national list of
paedophiles in South Africa and that allowed him to work as an assistant
in a boys' school without anyone being aware of his perversion.
Child rights groups this week pressed the
National Council of Provinces to fast-track the passing of the Sexual
Offences Bill so that a proposed register of child-sex offenders could
be implemented.
The bill provides for a regularly updated
national register of known paedophiles to be made available to the
public.
The investigating officer in the Olivier
case, Inspector John Nomdoe, said on Friday that Olivier had confessed
to having sexually assaulted more than 200 young boys over the past 30
years.
This week Olivier has been testifying in
mitigation of sentence before Justice Essa Moosa about the days leading
up to December 23. He also told the court he had been diagnosed with a
multiple personality disorder in 1978 - and that since the age of six
had had eight alter egos.
He blamed one of these personalities, "Theo",
for Steven's murder but when the judge asked Olivier if he could speak
to Theo, he thought for a moment and then replied: "No, I am in charge
now."
Asked to identify his personalities,
Olivier listed eight names - his birth name of Theunis Christian Olivier
and seven others as his alter egos: Raymond Sinclair, Brian Shannon,
Chris Oliver, Theo, Ruuss, Sharon and Tory. He said it was Theo, the
most powerful of them all, who killed Steven.
Asked in court by State advocate Jan
Theron if he saw himself as a danger to society, Olivier responded: "Yes,
I do see myself as a danger to society, but with treatment I won't be a
danger to society. The day after the confession I requested the
investigating officer to take me and shoot me. I felt terrible. All I
wanted to do was die.
"If there was the option of the death
sentence, and if treatment for me was denied, I'd say give me the death
sentence."
The case will continue next week but,
even after he has been sentenced, Olivier's days in court will be far
from over. He has still to face five charges of indecently assaulting
boys under the age of 14 in Ladysmith.
The police are also investigating his
activities in towns and cities in which he has lived since he entered
South Africa illegally from Zimbabwe in 2000.
This week, Nomdoe told how Olivier had
served a 16-year jail term in Zimbabwe on seven counts of indecent
assault and one of rape.
Once he arrived in South Africa, he
continued his orgy of molestation before being arrested for Steven's
murder.
I must be given hope
- Steven's killer
Olivier claims he
has 8 personalities
By Fatima Schroeder - The Star
03/08/07
If child-killer Theunis Olivier does not receive
psychiatric help, he will seek another victim.
The 50-year-old man, who claims his personality has
been split into eight, says that sending him to prison for the rest of
his life would not solve his problem.
A prison sentence, coupled with psychiatric treatment,
would help him become a better person, he says.
Olivier told the Cape High Court yesterday that one
of his eight personalities, named Theo, was solely responsible for the
December 2005 kidnapping, indecent assault and murder of 6-year-old
Steven Siebert in Plettenberg Bay.
Olivier was convicted of the charges on Tuesday. He
uses the name Theunis Olivier only for legal purposes.
The court heard that he uses the name Ray Sinclair
because, he says, Sinclair's personality has taken control of his body.
Included in the eight personalities are one of a
woman, Sharon, and a boy, Tory. There may be additional personalities,
Olivier said, but they have not been clearly identified.
"I honestly and truly believe in my own heart and my
own mind that I, in myself, did not commit the offence on the day of the
23rd of December 2005 … I firmly believe that Theo was responsible for
the act and, at the time of the act being done, I, in myself, was
powerless over him," Olivier said.
He had "bitterly" condemned Theo for the murder. But
he had discussed it with Theo, and Theo was remorseful and had accepted
blame, Olivier said.
He told state advocate Jan Theron that he did not
intend to call Theo as a witness.
Olivier yesterday apologised for the murder, saying:
"It wasn't supposed to happen … It was beyond my control and I am truly
sorry for that. I regret that it ever happened and I know that, no
matter how long I live, it will always haunt me."
He said he didn't want Steven to die, adding that,
even though a different personality was responsible for the murder, his
body must be held responsible for it.
"You cannot punish the one without punishing the
other.
"We are collective, together as one," he said.
However, he added that he did not believe that life
imprisonment was an appropriate sentence.
"There are times when a person must be punished, but
there are times when a person needs help. I believe that these are one
of those times."
Olivier said he did not deserve more than 20 years in
prison, and that his sentence must be accompanied by treatment.
"I should be given hope. If I were to be imprisoned
for the rest of my life, there is no hope."
He admitted he was a danger to society and that he
would commit such a crime again if he did not receive treatment.
Paedophile 'nearly got away'
06/06/2007 - News24.com
Tisha Steyn, Die Burger
George - Hair of the murdered Steven Siebert, 6, from
Randburg was found in a cupboard of the house in Plettenberg Bay where
self-confessed paedophile Theunis Olivier worked.
This was some of the shocking testimony heard in the
circuit high court in George on Tuesday.
It also came to light that Olivier would have gotten
away after the murder on the blonde boy, had it not been for an alert
young policeman.
Helga Remane-Legacher from Parkwood, Johannesburg in
an affidavit handed in at court, described how she had seen Steven with
an elderly man with a long beard - dressed in "dark clothes" - brown
jeans, a dark blue shirt and red cap - at a tree in the garden of 20
Stableford in Plettenberg Bay.
Said he was 'jogging'
Steven's parents, Thomas and Elaine Siebert, rented
the house for the holidays.
Terry Cairns, owner of the house at 13 Cordovan
Street, where Olivier did tiling, testified that he had informed police
that Olivier might be a suspect because he had shaven his long beard on
that day.
Sergeant Otto Olivier testified captain Guy Clift,
who co-ordinated the search, had asked him to fetch the suspect from 13
Cordovan Street. He testified that the suspect had a beard like that of
"Father Christmas", according to people who had seen the suspect with
the boy.
Olivier searched the house. He noticed that the
suspect's bags were packed, that a bundle of wet clothes were in the
bath and that he had just shaven, as there was still blood on his neck
and face.
He took the suspect to Stableford Drive, where
witnesses who had seen him with the boy weren't 100% sure that it was
him.
Olivier took the suspect back to 13 Cordovan Street
and told him to stay there as he was still a suspect, but that there was
"not enough evidence to arrest him", said Clift.
Constable Justin Plaatjies, who was on patrol in a
police vehicle, was on his way to Clift when he noticed the suspect in
Grisnez Street about 10 minutes' walk from Cordovan Street, he testified
on Tuesday.
The suspect said he was "jogging", but he was clearly
not dressed for jogging and was walking, Plaatjies testified.
Plaatjies searched him and found about R6 000 in cash
on him, the money he had earlier received from his employer. He was
taken to Clift, and they decided that he should be held at the police
station.
According to the investigating officer, inspector
John Nomdoe, who also testified, he was called to help question the
suspect. He and a detective (only known as sergeant Theunissen) started
questioning the suspect about 22:15 on that Friday afternoon.
Olivier was formally arrested about 05:00 on Saturday
morning, the day before Christmas.
The boy's body was found in bushes in the yard of 13
Cordovan Street on Saturday morning. Some of his blonde hair was also
found in the cupboard in one of the rooms inside the house, where the
hair was found attached to a splinter. The state pathologist was
expected to testify on Wednesday.
According to Nomdoe, Olivier gave an oral testimony
about 16:00 on Saturday. On Sunday he gave a formal admission of guilt
before magistrate Les Strydom in the George magistrate's court.
On Monday, the day after Christmas, the suspect, who
was until then known as Raymond Sinclair, for the first time revealed
his true identity to the investigating officer as Theunis Christiaan
Olivier.
Zimbabwean-born rapist and child killer Theunis Olivier (C), 48, sits,
01 August 2007, in the dock as he waits to be sentenced for the rape and
murder of six year old Steven Siebert at the High Court in Cape Town.
(Photo credit should read Gianluigi
Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)
