Ballito woman to be sentenced for drowning daughter

Ballito woman to be sentenced for drowning daughter

A Ballito woman is due to be sentenced in May for the murder of her daughter. 

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**Please be advised the following story contains details of child abuse which some might find triggering


Last month, she pleaded guilty to drowning the four-year-old in a bucket of water.

She appeared in the KwaDukuza Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.


READ: IFP KZN demands tougher sentences for women, child abusers

At the time of her arrest two in 2022, the woman told authorities that the little girl was difficult and troublesome.

The mother cannot be named to protect the identity of her other child

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