Two charged over disappearance of Chinchilla, Queensland, toddler Kaydence Mills in 2016

Two people are charged with murder and TORTURE over the disappearance of missing toddler Kaydence Mills over four years ago

• Two people charged with murder and torture in relation to missing two-year-old 
• Kaydence Mills was last seen by family in 2016 in Chinchilla, rural Queensland
• Police excavated a property in Chinchilla on Sunday with cadaver dogs 

By Brittany Chain For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 20:38 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 20:48 GMT, 1 March 2020

Pictured: Kaydence Mills before she went missing

A man and woman have been charged with murder and torture in relation to the disappearance of a two-year-old girl almost four years ago.

Kaydence Dawita Mills 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 councellor at the local school in Chinchilla, regional Queensland. 

An ongoing investigation has been underway ever since, but on Sunday police moved their search to the banks of the Condamine River.

A 40-year-old Chinchilla man and a 28-year-old woman from the same area were both charged with murder, torture and interfering with a corpse.

Both are known to Kaydence, who would now be five.

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

Cadaver dogs were used in the search, but Kaydence was not found.

‘Investigators are searching the property and speaking to a number of persons who may be able to assist with the investigation,’ a police spokesman said.

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

Kaydence pictured with her mother, 28-year-old Sinitta Dawita, before she went missing

Her 28-year-old mother Sinitta Dawita reportedly told other members of the family that Kaydence was living with a friend when asked about her.

She spent the first two years of her life living in Innisfail with another family before she returned to her mother in 2016, family said.

She 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 Daily Mercury.

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

The man and woman charged in relation to her disappearance will appear in the Dalby Magistrates Court on Monday.

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