Tue | Oct 7, 2025

Partially burnt body of teen girl found in bushes in Manchester

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 8:20 AM
File photo.
File photo.

The partially burnt body of a teen girl was found in bushes in Manchester on Monday afternoon.

She has since been identified as 13-year-old Santina Sergeant, who was a student at Christiana High School.

Reports from the Spaldings police are that about 5:30, passers-by stumbled upon the body and called the police.

The police say the scene was processed and the body was removed to the Percy Junor Hospital.

The matter is under investigation.

- Rasbert Turner

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