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Who Is Mortimer Saunders? |Biography Of Mortimer Saunders Man found guilty of brutal rape and murder of 3-year-old girl in South Africa

A man, Mortimer Saunders has been found guilty of the brutal rape and premeditated murder of 3-year-old Courtney Pieters in Cape Town. 

Judge Pearl Mantame made the finding at about noon on Wednesday after delivering a lengthy judgement in the Cape Town high court. 
A 40-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of three-year-old Courtney Pieters in Elsies River, Cape Town, South Africa, rented a space in her family home.

It was that the little girl was found in a shallow grave, 10 days after she went missing. Pieters was declared missing on Thursday, May 4th and was last seen playing in a street near her home.

According to local media, he knew them well? infact he was tasked with watching Pieters and her six-year-old sibling the day she went missing from their home in Elsies River on the Cape Flats.

When Pieters?s mother? Juanita? stepped out that day she asked the man? who had been at home sleeping after working a night shift? to ?watch over? the children. The man had been living with them for two years.

They trusted him? even after Pieters went missing? confiding in him and using him as a source of support in their time of need.
But his involvement even went beyond that. The suspect became quickly involved with the investigation? embedding himself with the Elsies River Community Police Forum (CPF) search.

And when 200 members of the public went looking for the little girl on Saturday? it was he? along with other volunteers? who first stumbled across the body.
?The man now arrested for Courtney?s murder? was actively involved in the search every step of the way. He even was on the scene when her body was found. It?s been extremely traumatic for all of us? knowing he was so close to the investigation?? said Imraahn Mukaddam? CPF chief for Elsies River.

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