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The NPA has confirmed that Kelly Smith, Steveno van Rhyn, and Jacquin Appollis have filed applications for leave to appeal ...
Swanepoel was speaking at a webinar the day after Joshlin’s traffickers and kidnappers filed for leave to appeal against ...
The attorneys for Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno Van Rhyn filed the notices for leave to appeal their convictions ...
A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison for selling her six-year-old daughter.Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others, her boyfriend and another man, who also ...
Judge Nathan Erasmus ruled that Smith, 35, and her two co-accused -- a boyfriend and mutual friend -- also be jailed for life for human trafficking. They were all sentenced to a concurrent 10 ...
She remains missing. Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced Smith and the two men to life in prison for human trafficking, as well as a concurrent 10 years for kidnapping, per CBS News. During the ...
Mom-of-three Smith was described as manipulative and had shown “no indication of remorse” or concern over her daughter’s disappearance, Judge Nathan Erasmus said in court. All three were also ...
A South African mother and her partner were sentenced to life in prison for abducting and trafficking her six-year-old daughter to a traditional healer who wanted the child for her body parts.
Kelly Smith, Jacquin Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn appeared in court an hour later than they were scheduled to Judge Nathan Erasmus was unhappy with the delay and promised to get to the bottom of ...
During the trial, a witness testified that Smith admitted to selling her daughter, along with the two men, for about $1,000 to a traditional healer who sought the child for her body parts.
A court in South Africa has convicted a woman of selling her 6-year-old daughter. The girl has not been found despite a ...