Staff Reporter The tragic case of a two-year-old boy allegedly sold by his mother for R75 000 has sent shockwaves through South Africa, reigniting urgent questions about the country’s deepening social ...

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

A South African mother has been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter, Joshlin ...

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

A South African woman has received her sentence after she was one of three found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her six ...

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

Raquel "Kelly" Smith, 35, was sentenced to life in prison for human trafficking and kidnapping her daughter, Joshlin, who ...

Racquel "Kelly" Smith learned of her sentence less than a month after being convicted of trafficking her daughter alongside ...

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

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

No-one knows the scale of the problem, but the International Labour Organisation estimates at least 200,000 children are trafficked within west Africa annually ... the problem and last year outlawed ...

In a case that shocked South Africa, one witness said the woman had told her ... Read: One in six human trafficking victims is a child The judge did not say in his ruling who the girl was sold to or ...