Kelly Smith planned to sell daughter, Joshlin, and her 2 other children, says State
According to the State's indictment, Kelly Smith told her co-accused that she planned to sell her eleven-year-old son and her two-year-old daughter, along with Joshlin, in August last year.
Kelly Smith (centre) and Lourencia Lombaard (right) appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrates Court on 21 October 2024 related the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith. Picture: Carlo Petersen/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - The State said that Kelly Smith had plans to sell her daughter, Joshlin, as well as her two other children.
Eight months after Joshlin Smith went missing and on the eve of her seventh birthday on Wednesday, details have emerged about what could have possibly happened to the little girl.
With the case now set for pre-trial in the Western Cape High Court on 31 January, the State has given a list of substantial facts related to Joshlin's disappearance.
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According to the State's indictment, Kelly Smith told her co-accused that she planned to sell her eleven-year-old son and her two-year-old daughter, along with Joshlin, in August last year.
It's the State's case that on 18 February, Smith allegedly took Joshlin to an unknown woman in a white car, where she received a package.
Smith and the co-accused then allegedly discussed sharing the money before Smith took Joshlin to meet the same woman on the day she went missing.
The State said that more details would emerge when evidence against co-accused Jaquen Appolis and Stevano van Rhyn was added to the indictment.
Missing six-year-old Joshlin Smith’s mother Kelly Smith and her co-accused have made another appearance in the Vredenburg Magistrate’s Court. Kidnapping and human trafficking charges against accused four, Lourencia Lombaard have been withdrawn. CP pic.twitter.com/pbrs3iggVY
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