Joslin Smith: Trio sentenced to life behind bars
Joslin Smith's mother and her accomplices, Jacquen Appolis and Steveno van Ryhn, have been handed life sentences for the disappearance of the little girl.
Western Cape High Court Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced the trio on Thursday in a packed White City Multipurpose Centre in Saldanha Bay.
Judge Erasmus sentenced the trio to 10 years for kidnapping.
He said he could not find any mitigating circumstances in sentencing Kelly Smith for kidnapping and trafficking.
"On the human trafficking charge, you're sentenced to life imprisonment. On the kidnapping charge, you're sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, because I've imposed life imprisonment, there's no need for me to rule on the concurrency of the sentences, because by operation of law, it will be served concurrently.”
On Wednesday, State Prosecutor Zelda Swanepoel requested that the trio’s names be entered into the Child Protection Register under Section 120 of the Children’s Act, barring them from working with children in the future.
"I'm also ordering for the entry of your names into the National Child Protection Register,” Judge Erasmus ordered.
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