The man convicted of raping and killing 12-year-old Michaela Williams allegedly confessed to raping nine other girls while he was on parole between 2017 and 2020.
Steven Fortune allegedly made the shocking confession to doctors at Valkenberg hospital where he underwent a 30-day psychiatric evaluation ahead of his sentencing.
On Friday Dr Marc Roffey told the court that Fortune said he had raped the girls after he was released on parole in 2017 for the rape and attempted murder of another eight-year-old victim.
“He told me that between 2017 and 2020, he raped nine or ten girls and he also provided nine names,” Dr Roffey told the court.
“None of us know that these offences actually occurred.”
The doctor said Fortune’s alleged raping spree came to an end when he was arrested for Michaela’s murder.
The Grade 6 learner disappeared in January last year while playing in front of her home in Pelikan Park.
Two days later, cops arrested 49-year-old Fortune from New Horizon who led police to where he had raped and killed the 12-year-old and left her body, in 9th Avenue, Schaapkraal.
She had been bludgeoned to death with a concrete slab which was found at the scene.
Fortune later admitted to luring Michaela by promising to buy her a chocolate and cake.
He had been on parole for three years at the time of his arrest.
Michaela’s mother, Beatrice Adams is now asking for other unknown victims to come forward.
“I would like to ask the parents to go to the nearest police station and report to the police what Steven did to them.
“This will help make this case stronger and it will ensure that he never comes out of jail again.”
Though Beatrice is disappointed that the case has once again been postponed, she believes that the sentence will be heavy.
On Friday, the mother of Fortune’s first victim, who is now 24 years old, read a letter to the court on behalf of her daughter, was too traumatise to face her attacker.
She wrote: “All wounds were reopened when I read in the Daily Voice about Michaela's story, it sounded like mine. No one told me that he’s been released, the system failed me, I felt like I was stabbed in my heart. He should have stayed in prison, Michaela would not be dead if he had remained in prison.”
The matter has been postponed for the court to determine how Fortune was released on parole and why he was not sent back to prison after violating his parole conditions, entering Mitchells Plain where his first victim lived.