Raquel ‘Kelly’ Chantel Smith, the mother of the missing six-year-old Joshlin who disappeared from their home in Saldanha more than a month ago, is expecting another child while she awaits trial in prison.
Smith, along with her boyfriend Jacquin ‘Boeta’ Appollis, friend Steveno van Rhyn, and neighbour Lourentia ‘Renz’ Lombaard have been arrested and charged with human trafficking and kidnapping in connection with Joshlin’s disappearance.
Allegations suggest that Smith left Joshlin in Appollis’s care on 19 February while she went to work, but the child has not been found despite extensive searches., Senior advocate Aradhana Heeramun, representing the state in court, claims that Smith instructed Appollis and Van Rhyn to sell Joshlin to another person in Middelpos for a sum of R20,000 for ritual purposes. This disturbing revelation came after a 36-hour interrogation at Saldanha Police Station where the two men confessed.
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