The 16-year-old went missing on September 9, and was found the following day.
Benoni police spokesperson Lieut Nomsa Sekele said it was suspected the girl had been drugged.
“Fortunately, she was not raped but she had marks around her neck which shows someone tried to strangle her,” said Sekele.
The girl was spotted by Benoni officers Capt Mark Lourens and WO Phokela Malesa who were travelling back from Springs to Benoni SAPS in the morning.
“Lourens spotted something suspicious next to the mine dump on the corner of Main Reef Road and Old Daveyton Road,” said Sekele.
They stopped immediately and went to investigate and found the girl lying face down, unconscious on the ground.
Sekele added that at first, the officer thought the girl was dead as she was not moving.
Lourens felt her neck for a pulse to verify if she was still alive.
“A weak pulse was found and the paramedics were called immediately to the scene,” said Sekele.
While waiting for the paramedics, they managed to help her regain her consciousness and established where she was from but all she could remember was that she was from Brakpan.
Brakpan police were contacted and confirmed that a missing teenager case had been reported the previous day by her parents.
She was taken to the Linmed Hospital, where she was treated and later reunited with her family.
The acting Benoni police station commander Col Thomas Maupa commended the members for their alertness, dedication and assistance rendered with the related case.
