The missing girl's mother, Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis, and Steveno van Rhyn were handed life sentences on Thursday for the ...

SALDANHA BAY, South Africa (AFP) — A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country.

The Saldanha Bay community has expressed mixed feelings after missing girl Joshlin Smith's mother and her accomplices were handed life sentences on Thursday for the little girl's disappearance.

A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by ...

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

Three individuals convicted in the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith have been handed life sentences for human trafficking, along with an additional 10 years each for kidnapping.

The Supreme Court on Friday barred the Trump administration from quickly resuming deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law enacted when the nation was just a few years old ...

The woman accused of burning down the house of Kelly Smith has been granted R500 bail in the Vredenburg Magistrate’s Court.

VREDENBURG - The woman arrested for allegedly setting Kelly Smith's house on fire is appearing in the Vredenburg magistrate's court.

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