Human remains found in a remote dam belong to missing toddler Kaydence Mills

Human remains found in a remote dam belong to a missing three-year-old Kaydence Mills. 

Detectives found the bones at Chinchilla Weir, about 300km west of Brisbane, in March.

Police announced on Monday that forensic testing proved they belonged to Kaydence, who went missing four years ago.  

Her mother Sinitta Dawita, 28, and her fiance Tane Desatge, 40, were charged in February with one count each of murder, interfering with a corpse and torture.   

Kaydence was last seen in 2016, but police did not start searching for her until last year after members of her family expressed their concern to a guidance counsellor at the local school in Chinchilla, regional Queensland.   

Desatge is not the toddler’s father but was in a relationship with Dawita at the time of the alleged murder. 

Sinitta Dawita (left), 28, and her fiance Tane Desatge, 40, are accused of murdering her daughter Kaydence Dawita Mills (right)

Police also searched a Chinchilla home, where they excavated the backyard.   

Some of Kaydence’s family members described her to the Courier Mail as a ‘beautiful little girl’ who walked with a limp. 

Kaydence was the middle sibling of five children.  

‘There’s a little girl and she’s missing and we don’t know what’s happened to her,’ the family member previously told the Daily Mercury.

‘It needs to be brought out of the dark because it’s been hidden in the dark for too long.’ 

Dawita and Desatge remain in custody and are expected to front the Dalby Magistrates Court on June 30.

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Pictured: Police excavated a home in Chinchilla in the search for Kaydence, but did not find the little girl