A nine-year-old girl was strangled to death by her mother and the mother’s boyfriend in Egypt, according to Egyptian authorities.

The mother and the boyfriend had planned to kill her two other children but the police arrested them before that happened.

Upon investigation, it was found that the mother decided to kill her three children with her boyfriend’s help after robbing the house to make their deaths look like a theft motivated crime.

The mother and boyfriend confessed to their crime.