A three-year-old girl was raped and murdered at the Kwa-Masiza hostel in Sebokeng on Saturday morning, Vaal Rand police said.
The child was murdered after the mother (23) left her alone to visit her boyfriend at about 3am, Superintendent Maria Mazibuko said.
When the woman returned at about 6am, she found the alleged rapist, a friend of the boyfriend’s, getting dressed in the room. He had broken in through a window.
The child was naked and bleeding.
Neighbours arrested the man after being alerted by the mother’s screaming.
Police were summoned and arrested the 29-year-old man.
He will appear in the Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
The court would also decide whether to arrest and charge the mother with negligence, Mazibuko said. — Sapa