Teen driver forgiven

MOTHER: 'MALCOLM BELIEVED IN GOD, WOULD HAVE WANTED IT THAT WAY'

- Thelma Koorts

other of 14-year-old Malcolm Booysen, who died on Saturday after being hit by a vehicle allegedly driven by a 12-year-old child, told the Brakpan Herald yesterday she had forgiven the child allegedly responsible for the accident.

"My Malcolm was a child who believed in God and he would have wanted it this way," said Helen-Ann Pelser.

"In the past, I probably would have held a grudge, but thanks to my husband, Quinton, who brought our whole family closer to the Lord and the church, I feel that forgiveness is the right thing to do," she said.

Pelser said she didn't want to relive the moment she heard that her child had died.

"It was the longest moment of my life when I had to drive from my sister's flat to the place where the accident happened," she said.

She was at her sister Marissa Strauss' flat in Prince George Avenue when a chaplain delivered the tragic news.