A mother and two accomplices have been sentenced to life imprisonment for trafficking her then-six-year-old daughter, in a case that captivated South Africa.
Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno Van Rhyn were convicted of kidnapping and trafficking the girl, Joshlin Smith, after she disappeared from the small town of Middelpos, Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape on February 19, 2024.
