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A former preschool teacher has been found guilty of raping and murdering her ex-partner’s four-year-old daughter.

Amber Lee Hughes, 29, had previously admitted to drowning Nada-Jane Chalita, who was found in a bathtub in her Glenvista, Johannesburg home in January 2023.

A post-mortem examination indicated that Nada-Jane had also been sexually assaulted.

Hughes, who was in a relationship with the girl’s father, Elie Chalita, at the time of the murder, was arrested and charged.

Initially, she pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape and one count of murder, but later admitted to killing Nada-Jane.

Hughes said she had drowned the girl by sitting on top of her while she was in a bathtub inside her father’s apartment.

She told the court th

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