Missing six-year-old Joshlin Smith’s mother Racquel ‘Kelly’ Smith, together with her accomplices, are to appeal against their ...

Missing six-year-old Joshlin Smith’s mother Racquel ‘Kelly’ Smith, together with her accomplices, are to appeal against their ...

Kelly Smith and two others involved in Joshlin Smith's 2024 disappearance were convicted on kidnapping and trafficking charges on Friday Executive Mayor Andrè Truter Facebook A 6-year-old girl ...

According to the State’s summary of facts, Joshlin and her two siblings – aged 11 and two years old – lived with Smith and her boyfriend Appolis in Middelpos, Saldanha.

Smith was present in court and sat through the hour-long proceeding with an impassive gaze. Racquel "Kelly" Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, at her sentencing in the Western Cape High Court in ...

Kelly Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, attends her sentencing at the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, on May 29, 2025. Sumaya Hisham/Reuters. Reuters — ...

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 a small town in the ...

As the trial in the Joshlin Smith disappearance concluded, the search for the young girl from Saldanha, Western Cape, remains ongoing. On Thursday, May 29, Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced Jacquen ...

Joshlin Smith, then 6, disappeared from her home in the small town of Middelpos, Saldanha Bay, in Western Cape province on February 19, 2024, and a nationwide search began. She has not been found. 4 ...

The sentencing comes more than a year after Smith's daughter, Joshlin Smith, went missing from her Saldanha Bay home in February 2024. She remains missing.

Although missing Joshlin Smith's dad, Jose Emke, and grandmother, Lauretta Yon, had braced themselves for the first week of the trial, nothing could have prepared them for the shocking revelation that ...