Nursery school teacher is convicted of raping and drowning her partner’s four-year-old daughter by sitting on her in the bath

A female nursery school teacher is convicted of raping and strangling her partner’s four -year -old daughter by sitting in the bathroom.

Amber-Lee Hughes was found guilty of crimes against Nada-Jane Challita at the Gauteng Supreme Court in Johannesburg on Thursday.

In the apartment he shared with Hughes’s father Elie Chalita, the four -year -old child was arrested in 2023 after he was discovered in a bathtub full of water.

The judge described the events that took place on January 23, 2023, and the day Nada-Jane was killed, his father’s face was visibly distressed.

During the hearing that began earlier this year, Hughes claimed that he was innocent and was not guilty. Until last month, he did not confess to strangle the girl after a discussion with Challa on disgusting, but continued to reject the rape.

According to the prosecution authority, Hughes and Chalita had a turbulent turbulence defined by multiple debates, which constantly threatened to harm the child.

Judge Richard Mkhabela explained to the court how Hughes’s child thought about the murder in advance.

The defendant threatened. There is a tendency to make violence threats. The objective evidence shows that after stopping communication with Mr. Chalita at 16:35, Mr. Chalita shows that he continued to send defendant messages, but did not answer, but read the messages. ‘

After the four -year -old child was discovered in a bathtub full of water in 2023, he was arrested in the apartment he shared with Hughes’s father Elie Challa

In 2021, he developed a romantic relationship with Elie Challa and moved with him and his young daughter

According to the evidence given to the court, the kindergarten teacher raped the girl by adding foreign objects to her genital.

The judge told the court that it was unnecessary to review the evidence of the accidental of the drowning due to Hughes’s admission.

“The last assumptions of the accused… It is an acceptance that he drowned on him and drowned on him and caused the death of the deceased.”

Authorized, Hughes’ delayed entry, post -mortem examination of the judicial pathologist Dr. He added that he was inconsistent with scientific and medical evidence presented by Hestelle Van Stada.

‘These assumptions meet all the elements of the murder’ he said.

After drowning, Hughes announced that he had made three attempts to take his own life.

He said he suffered from the court with personality disorder at the border, but admitted that he was completely aware of his actions.

In 2021, he developed a romantic relationship with Chalita and moved to him and his young daughter.

Hughes confessed to the murder of Nada-Jane Challita, whose body was in a bathtub in Johannesburg in 2023.

He was accused of two rapes, but at the end of the hearing, he was convicted of only one number.

At an earlier hearing, Challa told the court that Hughes was jealous of her daughter.

He said: ‘[She] He was jealous for giving [Nada-Jane] More attention and spend more money on him. ‘

On the day of the murder, Challita had a job interview, but Hughes seemed angry that he did not say goodbye to him before he left.

He said, ‘You broke my heart; I will burn yours. How can you do this to me? ‘

The father said: ‘I felt my heart fell from my chest; I felt something very wrong. ‘

Speaking to the media after the decision, Chalita said that the hearing finally ended after a two -month delay.

Hughes’s decision to change his appeal in July, he postponed only days before the hearing was concluded.

He was accused of two rapes, but he was convicted of only one number at the end of the hearing, as well as being guilty of murder.

Citizen, “ `Thank goodness that we have experienced progress, ” he said.

The guilty was pleased with the decision, but he was disappointed that Hughes was convicted of only one rape instead of both. This is a kind of ‘two -thirds closing’ he said.

This does not bring my child back. Nothing will bring him back. So anger and relief is a mixed feeling. Just mixed emotions. ‘

When Hughes was asked to be imprisoned for life, Chalita claimed that he would not compensate for tragedy.

Frankly, I’m the child’s parent. The justice I am looking for is not available in this world or in this life.

We are all human here. He is a dominant person. Nobody can bring back those who disappear.

‘So my real justice will not be in this life or in this world, but it starts here and today it officially found guilty by the judge.’

After the trial, telling his feelings, ‘I feel a little better. I hope this feeling grows on me, but at the same time he can never erase what is happening to my child.

‘My real and first sacrifice child here, [who] He was a person with a name and a character [of] He was tortured by himself and to death and was raped.

‘So, as much as I am a victim, I am not 100 percent sacrifice here.’

Hughes’s lawyer asked the postponement to be postponed to allow the defense team time to prepare for the trial.

The proposal was accepted and the penalty was postponed to 27 October.