A newspaper reported yesterday that the child had told her mother, Juanita Pieters, 42, she was being molested by the man cops arrested in connection with her kidnapping, rape and murder.
But Juanita says she will seek legal advice if people continued spreading rumours about her.
“I have not had time to grieve, or deal with my baby being ripped from me and lies are coming out everywhere,” she says.
Mortimer Saunders, 40, is due to appear in the Goodwood Court again today.
Saunders, who boarded with Courtney’s family at their house in Pluto Street, Elsies River is expected to apply for bail.
Community worker Roegshanda Pascoe says rumours circulating on social media and newspapers are traumatising the family even more.
“I am so tired of having to deal with all these rumours, just imagine how Juanita feels,” says Roegshanda.
The mother indicated that she will be at court today to face Saunders.
“ Net die Here kan my die nodige krag bied wat ek moet het,” she says.
Saunders is a childhood friend of Courtney’s father Aaron Fourie and knows him for more than 20 years.
Courtney went missing on 4 May and her body was found buried in a shallow grave at Bofors Circle in Epping Industria nine days later.
Saunders was taken in for questioning the next day after cops searched his room.