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A 25-year-old woman from Bethesldorp in the Eastern Cape, is expected to appear in court in connection with the murder of her partner's nine-year-old daughter on Monday afternoon.
"It is alleged that at about 09:00, on Monday 28 March 2022, the suspect, who is also the girlfriend [of] the deceased's father, fetched the child from his house in Extension 28 in Bethelsdorp to take her for a haircut.
"During the day, the suspect hitchhiked with the child, Quinisha Sebrand, to Maitland Beach," Colonel Priscilla Naidu said in a statement on Tuesday.
Eastern Cape police said the child had swum in the ocean, and that at some time during the afternoon, "she was strangled and left on the beach".
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The woman went to the satellite police station in Sea View to report the incident at approximately 21:00.
The body of the child was found on the beach and the woman was detained on a charge of murder.
The motive behind the killing is not yet known to the police.
She is expected to appear in the Gqeberha Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
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