The mother of a South African girl, who disappeared aged six more than a year ago, has been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their ...

A year-and-a-half since the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith from Saldanha Bay, her family says they still believe she will be found alive, even as her mother and two others are serving ...

Racquel "Kelly" Smith, the mother of 6-year-old Joshlin Smith, has been sentenced to life in prison alongside two other men in connection with the trafficking of her child Jacquen Appollis and Steveno ...

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 ...

A South African mother and two others were convicted on Friday on kidnapping and trafficking charges after authorities say she possibly sold her daughter to a local healer who wanted the 6-year-old ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A South African woman was convicted Friday of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that horrified the country. The girl went missing more than a year ago ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A South African woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others, her boyfriend ...