A man accused of raping and murdering his ex-girlfriend’s 18-month-old son was sentenced in the Western Cape high court on Monday. Jeremiah Ruiters was murdered on June 12, 2017. He sustained a broken spine and 14 broken ribs, among other injuries.
Cape Town - A man accused of raping and murdering his ex-girlfriend’s 18-month-old son was sentenced in the Western Cape high court on Monday.
Peters and Ruiters were acquitted on child abuse charges pertaining to Ruiters’ surviving children, one eight and the other three years old at the time of the incident. Before handing down the sentences, Judge Monde Samela said Peters, who was Jeremiah’s caregiver while Ruiters worked, failed the deceased.“You abused the trust this child had for you. The brutality and cruelness the deceased sustained such as multiple rib fractures, multiple injuries on his whole body, some old, some new - the rape, injury to his spine and head, before he died.
Directing his attention to Ruiters, Samela brought up her being pregnant with Peters' baby during the trial. The child is currently in the foster care system.“It is my view no sentence can satisfy everyone and whatever sentence is handed down will never bring back the deceased," said the judge.
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