While Oscar Pistorius awaits his sentencing, the family Reeva Steenkamp says that the ‘Blade Runner’ offered them $34,000 in ‘blood money.’
Steenkamp’s family says that they rejected the funds because they did not want "blood money," that Pistorius was offering, a prosecutor said Tuesday at the sentencing hearing. According to ESPN, chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel also referred to separate monthly payments of $550 that the Pistorius made to Steenkamp's family, but said those would be paid back in full.
At this sentencing hearing, social worker Annette Vergeer recommended that Pistorius be sentenced to house arrest and be allowed to work at a school for disabled children. Vergeer went in to say that prison "will not assist him but will break him as a person," she said. "The exposure of the accused on his stumps to inmates will have a severe effect on him.”
"Blade Runner" Found Not Guily of Murder
This is the second day of the trial's sentencing hearing and it is expected to last about a week before judge Thokozile Masipa sentences first amputee athlete to run at the Olympics for culpable homicide. The 27-year-old Pistorius could receive a fine and a suspended jail term or as many as 15 years in prison for the killing of Steenkamp.
Pistorius’ camp maintains that the killing was an accident and the “Blade Runner” should be placed under house arrest, rather than sent to prison.
#OscarPistorius' agent tells me he's been managing the "significant" monthly payments to the Steenkamps, since March 2013.
— Nastasya Tay (@NastasyaTay) October 14, 2014
Vergeer cites overcrowding, violence, sodomy as risks in prison, as she argues #OscarPistorius shouldn't go to jail. — andrew harding (@BBCAndrewH) October 14, 2014
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