A South African court sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country.

A video clip of a laughing Joshlin Smith, who was six years old when she went missing more than a year ago in South Africa, left most people in the courtroom sobbing. It was shown during a hearing in ...

A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison after allegedly trafficking her 6-year-old daughter, Joshlin Smith ...

Joshlin Smith’s abduction reflects South Africa’s worsening crisis of missing girls and deep-seated human trafficking and exploitation issues.

Joshlin's teacher then alleged in court that Smith had told her during the search that her daughter was already "on a ship, inside a container, and they were on the way to West Africa".

Kelly Smith, the mother of missing Joshlin Smith, appears in court in Vredenburg, South Africa, Thursday, March 7, 2024. AP ...

The trial of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, missing since February 2024, represents a critical turning point in South Africa's approach to child trafficking. As the state presents its case, the ...

In a case that shocked South Africa, one of the witnesses had said in court that Smith told her she had sold her daughter to a sangoma, or traditional healer, for 20,000 rand ($1,100) and that the ...

In powerful closing arguments on Tuesday, Senior State Advocate Zelda Swanepoel described the Joshlin Smith case as unlike any South Africa has seen before, a heartbreaking story where the victim ...

Joshlin Smith, 6, disappeared from a small town in South Africa’s Western Cape last year Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

A video clip of a laughing Joshlin Smith, who was six years old when she went missing more than a year ago in South Africa, left most people in the courtroom sobbing. It was shown during a hearing ...

A video clip of a laughing Joshlin Smith, who was six years old when she went missing more than a year ago in South Africa, left most people in the courtroom sobbing. It was shown during a hearing ...