A South African nursery school teacher has been convicted of raping and drowning her partner's four-year-old daughter

[Augusta]

A South African nursery school teacher has been convicted of r@ping and drowning her partner's four-year-old daughter by sitting on her in the bath.

Amber-Lee Hughes was found guilty of the crimes against Nada-Jane Challita in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday, Augsust 28.

She was arrested after the four-year-old was discovered de@d in a bathtub filled with water in 2023, inside the apartment Hughes shared with her father, Elie Challita.

Throughout the trial, which began earlier this year, Hughes insisted she was innocent and pleaded not guilty. It was only last month that she confessed to drowning the girl after an argument with Challita over infidelity, but she continued to deny the r@pe

Hughes and Challita had a turbulent relationship marked by multiple altercations, during which she continually threatened to harm the child, according to the prosecution authority.

Judge Richard Mkhabela described to the court how Hughes premeditated the murder the child.

 

[King Belieal]

Sexually assaulted the little girl and still killed her. How wicked can the heart of man get to?

 

[Augusta]

I can't just wrap my head around this. You killed am innocent child for the sin of the father. This is pathetic