JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (Reuters) - A South African mother and two accomplices ... attention since the child went missing last year. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend ...

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in ...

South African prosecutors say she was sold into slavery however this was not definitively proven during the trial. It is believed that Smith, who was addicted to drugs, needed the money.

The mother of a South African girl, who disappeared aged six more than a year ago, has been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and ...

A photograph of Joshlin smiling and with her hair tied in pigtails was broadcast by news stations across South Africa as police then launched a nationwide hunt. Smith said she had left Joshlin ...