Three accused are going to jail but Joslin’s fate remains unknown

In a sombre and methodical judgment, Judge Nathan Erasmus on Thursday sentenced Kelly Smith, Jacquen “Boeta” Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn each to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and to life imprisonment for trafficking Smith’s daughter, Joslin. 

Justice might have been served on the perpetrators but the whereabouts of the girl, who was six years old when she went missing from the Middelpos area of Saldanha Bay on 19 February last year, remain unknown.

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