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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court found a mother and two accomplices guilty on Friday of kidnapping and trafficking her 6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained nationwide attention ...

The tragic case of six-year-old Joshlin Smith horrified South Africa and sparked global outrage. What began as a missing child report in February 2024 quickly unraveled into a disturbing child ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...