A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African woman went on trial Monday charged with kidnapping and selling her young daughter in a case that gained national attention. Kelly Smith is charged ...

Police say Joshlin Smith, 6, didn’t wander off, but was sold by the one person meant to love her the most. Authorities have spent over a year looking for a 6-year-old Black girl who went missing in ...

FILE - Kelly Smith, the mother of missing Joshlin Smith, appears in court in Vredenburg, South Africa, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo, File) (Uncredited ...

A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then-6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained nationwide attention since the child went ...

The Western Cape High Court heard that it was Steveno van Rhyn who first mentioned the woman allegedly involved in the sale of missing six-year-old Joshlin Smith. This was shared in the evidence in ...

Advocate Nobahle Mkabayi, representing Steveno van Rhyn in the Joshlin Smith case, argued before the Western Cape High Court that her client’s conviction should be overturned on grounds of procedural ...

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