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- A fisherman has found the body of a girl floating.
- DNA tests will be done to confirm identity.
- The girl disappeared after her mother’s car sank into the ocean.
A fisherman found floating the decomposed body of a two-year-old girl who drowned when her mother’s car sank into the ocean.
The girl disappeared on January 21 when her mother’s car sank into the ocean on Voelklip Road in Herolds Bay on Garden Route.
The girl’s 34-year-old mother died and her eight-year-old brother survived the incident with minor injuries. The mother is believed to have driven her car into the sea because she “did not want to live any longer. The boy managed to get out of the car and went to get help.
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A few days later, the girl’s body was seen in the ocean before disappearing again.
Southern Cape Police spokesman Capt Malcolm Pojie said the discovery was made by a fisherman between Swartvlei and Kleinkrantz on Thursday. “The fisherman went out on Thursday around noon when he saw the body floating in the ocean.”
Pojie said they recovered the badly decomposed body.
“At the moment, we believe she is the girl we were looking for and the girl’s father also identified her by the clothes she was wearing. Just to be safe, we are going to run DNA tests,” he said.
The incident was one of several on the notorious Voelklip Road. Just over a week after the incident involving the woman and her two children, another car crashed into Herolds Bay, killing a 40-year-old man.
In 2019, Heidi Scheepers and her six-year-old daughter Cozette and two-year-old son Hugo were killed when their car crashed into a cliff in Voelkip and fell into the ocean. Scheepers and Hugo’s bodies were recovered, but Cozette was never found.
