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Regter Nathan Erasmus het Kelly Smith, Boeta Appolis en Steveno van Rhyn direk aangespreek tydens hul vonnisoplegging op Woensdag 29 Mei vir die verkoop en ontvoering van Kelly se sesjarige dogtertjie, Joshlin, verlede jaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het die beskuldigdes lewenslange tronkstraf opgel\u00ea op die aanklag van mensehandel en tien jaar op die klag van ontvoering.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKelly Smith (voor) hoor dat sy en haar medebeskuldigdes lewenslank op aanklag van mensehandel gevonnis is. Agter staan Boeta Appolis links en Steveno van Rhyn regs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Uit Errol Pietersen, \u0149 proefbeampte, se voorvonnisverslae oor die beskuldigdes kon Erasmus geen rede kry om \u0149 ligter vonnis as tronkstraf te oorweeg nie. Erasmus het Pietersen se verslae oor die onderhoude wat hy met Smith, Appolis en Van Rhyn by die Pollsmoor-gevangenis opgestel het, as uiters samehangend en duidelik beskryf. \u201cOor baie jare, is dit een van die mees omvattende verslae wat ek gesien het … in duidelikheid en denke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het die wens uitgespreek dat die betroubare manier waarop Pietersen sy verslae opgestel en in die hof aangebied het, \u0149 diens is wat vir almal beskikbaar kan wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRegter Nathan Erasmus besig met die vonnisoplegging. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Pietersen het in sy verslae aanbeveel dat die maksimum vonnis opgel\u00ea word. \u0149 Sentiment wat die staat van die begin af gedeel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het in sy vonnisuitspraak die probleem van dwelmafhanklikheid in Saldanha maar ook die res van die land uitgewys, maar ges\u00ea dat dit nie as verskoning gebruik kan word om so \u0149 gruwelike misdaad, soos waarvan die beskuldigdes skuldig bevind is, te regverdig nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het Smith, Appolis en Van Rhyn uitgekryt omdat hulle deurentyd nie berou vir hul dade getoon het en nie die hofverrigtinge ernstig opgeneem het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het ook gehamer op die feit dat hulle \u0149 tenger sesjarige kon verkoop sonder om twee keer te dink terwyl hul al drie ouers is \u2013 Appolis die pa van twee dogters van vyf en elf jaar oud, Van Rhyn die pa van \u0149 vyfjarige dogtertjie en Kelly ook ma van \u0149 vierjarige dogter en twaalfjarige seun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die ongekende emosionele impak wat die hele saak op die gemeenskap van Middelpos, Diazville, Saldanha en die res van die Weskus gehad het, is nog \u0149 aspek wat vir Erasmus gewig gedra het. \u201cEk moet optree in belang van die gemeenskap en ter beskerming van die regte van individue, veral die regte van kinders … die kwesbares in die samelewing,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea. \u201cDie samelewing, gemeenskap van Saldanha is uitmekaargeskeur.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het ook die gemeenskap se uitroep na vergelding gehoor en besef dat die beskuldigdes sou moes betaal vir hul dade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edna Maart, wat in 2023 Joshlin se gr.R-onderwyseres by Diazville Prim\u00ear was, se slagofferimpakverklaring het Erasmus se hart aangeraak, so ook di\u00e9 van Kelly se ma, Amanda Daniels.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJoshlin se pa en twee oumas is van links Jos\u00e9 Emke en sy ma, Rita Yon, en Kelly Smith se biologiese ma, Amanda Daniels. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Hy het ges\u00ea sy regspraak was nie gemik op handboeke en die akademie nie, maar het uitsluitlik die doel gehad om aan die beskuldigdes te verduidelik wat sy oorweging tot hul uiteindelike lot was. Hy het ook probeer om genadig te wees en die toepaslike sosiale omstandighede te balanseer met die erns van die misdryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met die vonnis wou Erasmus die beskuldigdes afskrik van weer te oortree, maar hy wou ook ander afskrik wat daaraan dink om die morele waardes van die samelewing te ondermyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Pietersen se verslag, wat ook in die vonnisoplegging deur Erasmus aangehaal is, blameer Kelly haar ouers vir haar eie gedrag in hierdie saak. \u201cJy het geen aanduiding van berou getoon, behalwe met een vorige geleentheid en gister nie. Kelly het gesit en snik terwyl die slagofferimpakverklarings op Woensdag 28 Mei voorgelees is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJy het die helpende hand wat jou ma en familie na jou toe uitgesteek het, op \u0149 dreigende manier weggestoot. Ek vind geen versagtende omstandighede nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het ook verwys na haar gesprek met Philip Coetzee in Augustus 2023 waarin sy aangedui het dat sy van haar kind ontslae wou raak sodat sy en Boeta ‘n beter lewe kon h\u00ea. \u201cHoe gevoelloos is dit?\u201d Hy meen die insident waar gesien is hoe Kelly Joshlin hardhandig na die hut in Middelpos sleep, soveel so dat haar een plakkie uitgeval het, blyk nie ‘n ge\u00efsoleerde geval te gewees het nie. \u201cJy blameer ander omdat jy jou kind as ‘n kommoditeit behandel en haar verkoop het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het Appolis daaraan herinner dat hy uit \u0149 goeie huis gekom en kanse in die lewe gehad het, maar dat hy dwelms gekies het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van Rhyn het moeiliker grootgword, hoewel sy ma oor hom omgegee het. Erasmus het ges\u00ea Van Rhyn het \u0149 kans tot rehabilitasie gekry, maar dwelms en \u0149 lewe van misdaad gekies en glad nie omgee oor waar Joshlin haar bevind nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het beklemtoon dat hy wil h\u00ea die beskuldiges moet die erns van die oortreding verstaan. Dat hulle Joshlin as ma, vaderfiguur en vriend in die o\u00eb gekyk en verkoop het. Hulle het haar vertroue in hulle as haar beskermers verraai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een positiewe ding wat volgens Erasmus wel uit die saak gespruit het, was hoe die gemeenskap verenig en saamgestaan het ter verdediging van kinders. Hy het weer die gemeenskap van die Weskus geloof oor hoe gedissiplineerd hulle deurentyd gedurende die hofverrigtinge in die Veeldoelige Sentrum in White City, Saldanha, was sedert die verhoor in Maart hier begin het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erasmus het ook die staat se versoek toegestaan dat Smith, Appolis en Van Rhyn se name in die Nasionale Kinderbeskermingsregister ingeskryf word.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLt.-genl. Thembisile Patekile, polisiekommissaris van die Wes-Kaap, tydens ‘n mediakonferensie. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lt.-genl. Thembisile Patekile, polisiekommissaris van die Wes-Kaap, en Anroux Marais, Wes-Kaapse minister van gemeenskapsveiligheid, het ook die vonnisoplegging bygewoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patekile het die toegewyde polisie-ondersoekspan en die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag (NVG) hartlik gelukgewens. \u201cGedurende hierdie moeilike en emosionele reis het die polisie onwrikbare toewyding, professionaliteit en ‘n standvastige strewe na geregtigheid getoon. Hul noukeurige ondersoekwerk het nie net aanspreeklikheid aan diegene wat verantwoordelik is, gebring nie, maar ook die beginsels van geregtigheid en die oppergesag van die reg in ons samelewing herbevestig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAlhoewel geen vonnis die pyn wat deur die hartverskeurende verdwyning van die jong Joshlin veroorsaak is, kan uitwis nie, bied hierdie uitkoms ‘n mate van afsluiting en stuur dit ‘n kragtige boodskap: misdade teen ons mees kwesbare burgers sal nie ongestraf bly nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is belangrik dat die soektog na Joshlin nie afgelas is nie, en die polisie bly ten volle daartoe verbind om elke moontlike leidraad te ondersoek in die nastrewing van ware afsluiting in hierdie tragiese saak.” Saam met sy bestuurspan, prys hy elke beampte, speurder en spesialis wat by hierdie saak betrokke is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staatsgetuie Lourentia Lombaard sal binnekort hoor wat haar toekoms inhou, wanneer sy in die hooggeregshof in Kaapstad voor Erasmus sal verskyn. Die datum moet nog aangekondig word. Hy het wel net daarna verwys dat sy ook, nes die ander drie gereeld vir Joshlin by haar huis gehad het, maar steeds niks gedoen het om die verkoop of ontvoering te keer nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSteveno van Rhyn, wat die hof as ‘n bedreiging vir die samelewing beskryf. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Die verdediging, Fanie Harmse vir Appolis, adv. Nobahle Mkabayi vir Van Rhyn en Rinesh Sivnarain vir Smith, het aangedui dat hulle teen die vonnis gaan app\u00e8lleer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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