The parents of Oscar Pistorius' victims can be forgiven for having their emotions all over the spectrum.
June Steenkamp seemingly did another about-face this week when she said that she does not wish to see the double-amputee Olympic sprinter suffer in prison for the shooting death of his girlfriend and her daughter Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day, 2013, The Guardian reported.
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"I've got no feelings of revenge. I don't want to hurt him; he is already a disabled person," June Steenkamp said in a televised speech at her daughter's former school in Port Elizabeth.
The South African athlete known as the "Blade Runner" was sentenced to five years in prison on a culpable homicide conviction for shooting Reeva four times though an upstairs bathroom door in his Pretoria home.
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He maintains that he thought she was an intruder.
"I didn't want him to be thrown in jail and be suffering because I don't wish suffering on anyone, and that's not going to bring Reeva back," Steenkamp told the school students.
"But in my heart, I don't want revenge towards him. I'm past that. Once you have told God that you forgive, you have to forgive. And I don't want him to suffer .... I would certainly not want to hurt another human being."
Just two months ago, June and her husband Barry came out and accused Pistorius of murder, after more than 2 ½ years of silence on that aspect of the case.
"What actually came out in court is not the truth," Barry Steenkamp told Australia's Channel Seven television in an interview aired on Sunday, according to Huffington Post.
"He got angry, she went off to the toilet, locked herself inside, and then him pulling out the gun and shooting."
"Why didn't he just let her walk away?" June added.
Barry added that he wanted "real justice" for Pistorius' crime, according to the Theaustralian.com.au.
"We will leave it to the justice system," Barry said. "It's not finished, not finished by a long way.
"If the outcome's going to be a longer sentence, are we going to feel better? I don't know.
"All we want is the 'real justice' side of the whole scenario."
Prior to those statements, the Steenkamps maintained they just wanted to know what happened on the night of her death, BBC.com reported.
The Steenkamps said they forgave Pistorius for his crime in 2014, but when they heard about the details of that night during his trial, they admitted they were mad.
"I'm angry now," June said. "Still forgiving, but I'm angry."
In October of 2014, however, it was revealed that Pistorius was paying June and Barry after he had shot Reeva.
"We didn't have much choice," said June Steenkamp, according to The Independent. "We were in such a bad way; we didn't even have food on the table. It was that or starve.
"I wasn't happy about it and it did make me uncomfortable. But we are going to pay back every single cent. That's how I look at it and live with it now."
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