IN MY MOTHER’S FOOTSTEPS
HER blood ran cold the day she got the news from New Zealand. Her brother had been accused of molesting a young girl in his adoptive homeland and it instantly reopened old wounds and revived the trauma of her childhood.
“I know what happened to me as a child, but I’d been hoping none of my three brothers would ever do that,” Amor van der Westhuyzen says.
She’s the only daughter of the late Joey Haarhoff, the accomplice of infamous paedophile Gert van Rooyen. In the late ’80s and early ’90s the couple were responsible for the disappearance of at
