Kelly Smith, the mother of missing Joshlin Smith, appears in court in Vredenburg, South Africa, Thursday, March 7, 2024. AP A photograph of Joshlin smiling and with her hair ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Racquel "Kelly" Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, at her sentencing in the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, May 29, 2025. Sumaya Hisham / REUTERS ...

A mom who sold her 6-year-old daughter so her skin and eyes could be cut out and used by a “traditional healer” had been sentenced to life in prison in South Africa. Racquel “Kelly” Smith ...

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 woman has been sentenced to life in prison for selling her 6-year-old daughter, in a case that shocked the nation. Kelly Smith, whose full name is Racquel Chantel Smith, was ...

PRETORIA - Reaction continues to come in after the traffickers of Joshlin Smith were sentenced – including her own mother Kelly Smith. On Thursday, Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and ...

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 — ...