The sentencing follows an intense eight-week trial during which the court heard devastating details surrounding the girl’s ...

Little Joshlin Smith, who has a fair complexion and turquoise eyes, disappeared last February after vanishing outside her ...

Police figures for the 2024-2025 financial year reveal a sharp increase in kidnappings and human trafficking cases across ...

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

Kelly Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, attends her sentencing at the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay, South Africa ...

Alongside the woman, her boyfriend and another man also received life terms after being convicted on kidnapping and human ...

The tragic case of a two-year-old boy allegedly sold by his mother for R75 000 has sent shockwaves through South Africa, ...

Gone are the days when human trafficking felt like an obscure crime that occurs under the cover of night in far off places we ...

The court heard Racquel "Kelly" Smith, her boyfriend and a mutual friend sold the girl to a traditional healer, who was ...

A South African woman convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A South African woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter.

South African mother Racquel Smith and two accomplices sentenced to life for trafficking six-year-old Joshlin Smith, who ...