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Kelly Smith, Boeta Appollis en Steveno van Rhyn word dalk deur lewenslange tronkstraf in die gesig gestaar nadat hulle die afgelope Vrydag (2\u2009Mei) op aanklagte van die ontvoering van Joshlin Smith en mensehandel skuldig bevind is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die houthok waarin Appollis, Smith en haar drie kinders in Middelpos gewoon het, is die aand n\u00e1 die skuldigbevinding afgebrand \u2013 vermoedelik deur woedende gemeenskapslede. Die provinsiale polisie het die nuus in ‘n persverklaring bevestig en ges\u00ea ‘n vrou is intussen ingeneem vir ondervraging oor die brand. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smith, Appollis en Van Rhyn se uiteindelike lot berus nou by regter Nathan Erasmus. Die hof het Vrydag 9\u2009 Mei in die Kaapse hooggeregshof in Kaapstad die nodige prosedures afgehandel en hulle sal op 29 Mei in Saldanha gevonnis word. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die vonnisoplegging sal in die Veeldoelige Sentrum in White City, Saldanha, geskied. Erasmus sal dan ook uitsluitsel gee of Lourentia (Renz) Lombaard, wat oorspronklik saam met Smith, Appollis en Van Rhyn aangekla is, vrygespreek gaan word, al dan nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die staat gaan die voorgeskrewe vonnis van lewenslange tronkstraf bepleit. Smith se ma, Amanda Daniel-Smith, het aan joernaliste ges\u00ea sy glo vas haar dogter weet waar Joshlin is. Sy het beklemtoon die skuldigbevinding is nie wat sy wou gehad het nie. “My kleindogter is steeds weg.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netwerk24 het intussen berig dat Smith aan haar ma ges\u00ea het sy is van plan om v\u00f3\u00f3r die vonnisoplegging haar s\u00ea te s\u00ea. Smith en haar medebeskuldigdes het almal gekies om hul swygreg tydens die verhoor uit te oefen ten spyte van haar belofte op die eerste dag van hul verskyning op 7\u2009Maart 2024 \u2013 dat “die waarheid nog sal uitkom”. Smith het di\u00e9 belofte gereeld aan joernaliste, die publiek en haar familie v\u00f3\u00f3r en n\u00e1 hofverrigtinge uitgespreek. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die waarheid het egter steeds nie in die geheel uitgekom nie. Niemand weet nog waar Joshlin haar bevind nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het as sesjarige op Maandag 19 Februarie spoorloos uit die Middelpos- informele nedersetting in Saldanha verdwyn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het Vrydag in sy uitspraak ‘n gewag daarvan gemaak dat die beskuldigdes nie op die aantygings teen hulle geantwoord het nie. Die feit dat die beskuldigdes besluit het om nie te getuig nie, het volgens Erasmus Lombaard se getuienis onbetwis gelaat. Hy het ges\u00ea die hof kan sy eie afleiding maak oor waarom hulle gekies het om nie te getuig nie. “Daar kom ‘n tyd wanneer die bewyse ‘n antwoord vra.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Erasmus het adv. Zelda Swanepoel en adv. Aradhana Heeramun, wat die saak namens die staat hanteer het, daarin geslaag om die beskuldigdes bo alle twyfel as skuldig te bewys. Hoewel die staat se saak hoofsaaklik op omstandigheidsgetuienis berus het \u2013 wat individueel dalk nie na veel lyk nie \u2013 het dit vir Erasmus soos die te\u00ebltjies van ‘n mosa\u00efek of die stukkies van ‘n legkaart inmekaargepas. “Individueel lyk dit dalk nie betekenisvol nie, want wanneer ‘n mens getuienis evalueer, word gekyk na die integriteit daarvan.” Hy het Lombaard se getuienis as betroubaar bestempel en puntsgewys uitgewys hoe haar weergawe deur ander getuies beaam is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen Coetzee, ‘n algemene werker van Diazville, se getuienis het vir Erasmus swaar geweeg. Erasmus het Coetzee se getuienis aanvaar dat Kelly in Augustus 2022 aan hom ges\u00ea het Middelpos en Diazville gaan vroeg in die volgende jaar “soos ‘n rolprent lyk” soos wat mense na haar kinders of een van haar kinders gaan soek. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het ges\u00ea sy gaan die kind ver weg stuur. Coetzee het as getuie ‘n gunstige indruk op Erasmus gemaak. “Hy het geen motief gehad om homself in hierdie situasie te plaas nie en niks gehad om daaruit te baat nie.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Appollis en Van Rhyn se bekentenisse, wat hulle op Dinsdag 5 Maart 2024 afgel\u00ea het en wat op video vasgel\u00ea is, staaf ook Lombaard se getuienis oor onder meer die bespreking van die “Die Plan” \u2013 die oorhandiging en betaling vir Joshlin.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Erasmus begin die aanloop na die verkoop van Joshlin al in 2018 met die Andrews-gesin wat toe al vir Joshlin wou aanneem. Smith en Joshlin se pa, Jose Emke, het egter geweier.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar is getuig dat Smith op 18 Februarie 2024 aan Boeta ges\u00ea het sy wil van Joshlin ontslae raak omdat sy moeg is vir die Andrews-gesin en Emke wat die heeltyd die kind wil wegvat. Joshlin het skoolvakansies en naweke by Natasha Andrews en haar gesin deurgebring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het ges\u00ea die beskuldigdes se verskillende verklarings en getuienis gedurende die binneverhoor was onbestendig en hul tydlyn is glad nie sinvol nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus was nie be\u00efndruk met Smith wat as ‘n ma nie juis gehelp het om na haar kind te soek en geen werklike belangstelling getoon het nie. Hy het haar ook oor die kole gehaal omdat sy die Maandagaand (19\u2009Februarie) eerder haar foon wou laai [as om na haar kind te soek]. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het ook verwys na Smith wat aan verskeie mense ges\u00ea het “die kind” het haar beroemd gemaak, emosieloos voorgekom en “soos ‘n baba geslaap” die dag nadat Joshlin weggeraak het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het ges\u00ea Smith se gedrag op 19 Februarie 2024 \u2013 die dag toe sy Joshlin by die Saldanha-polisiekantoor as vermis gaan aangee het \u2013 is nie die gedrag van iemand wat nie weet waar haar kind is nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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