Chelsea Godlo's body was discovered yesterday after she had been reported missing on Monday.

CAPE TOWN - The mother of a murdered 10-year-old girl has broken down while speaking to Eyewitness News.

Chelsea Godlo's body was found under a bed in her grandfather's house in Gugulethu yesterday.

She was reported missing on Monday.

The girl's mother, Noreen Godlo, began crying uncontrollably as she described how she discovered her daughter's lifeless body in a sack under a bed at her father's home.

"She was in a big sack. I undid the knots and removed the bag from her head and saw it was my daughter. I screamed and said that this was my baby."

Police have arrested three men in connection with the murder.

The grandfather is not one of them.

Godlo said she still can't believe family members have been implicated in her daughter's murder.