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Sedertdien is nog geen spoor van die tenger grysgroenoogkind gevind nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith en nog drie beskuldigdes het Maandag (16 September) die vyfde keer in die Vredenburg-landdroshof verskyn op aanklagte van ontvoering en mensehandel vir die doeleinde om uit te buit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die ander beskuldigdes in die saak is Smith se k\u00earel, Boeta (Jacquen Rowhan) Appolis (31), sy vriend Steveno van Rhyn (27) en \u2019n buurvrou, Renze (Lorentia) Lombard (31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith het so ongesiens moontlik probeer om die trane wat onbeheersd begin loop het, te keer terwyl die hofsitting sy gang gaan. Dit was die eerste keer sedert die saak begin het dat sy nie met \u2019n strak gesig gestaan of vir die media geglimlag het nie, maar soos \u2019n ma in diep moeilikheid gelyk het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshlin het in Diazville, Saldanha, grootgeword, maar die laaste paar jaar saam met haar ma, Appolis, en haar boetie en sussie in \u2019n hokkie langs \u2019n vuil stroompie in die informele Middelpos-nedersetting gebly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die span van die Wes-Kaapse eenheid teen georganiseerde misdaad wat in ontvoering spesialiseer, ondersoek Joshlin se verdwyning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Ntabazalila, \u2019n woordvoerder vir die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag in die Wes-Kaap, het n\u00e1 die vier beskuldigdes se vlugtige verskyning in die hof ges\u00ea die staat het weer eens vir uitstel gevra om die saak verder te ondersoek omdat nuwe inligting aan die lig gekom het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nie Ntabazalila of senior staatsadvokaat Aradhana Heeramun het enigsins aangedui van watter soort inligting gepraat word nie. \u201cOns is egter verplig om enige getuienis wat na vore kom, te ondersoek,\u201d het Ntabazalila verduidelik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marco Smeda, die regsverteenwoordiger vir al vier beskuldigdes, het die landdros daarop gewys dat die saak al \u2019n geruime tydperk op die rol is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith, Appolis en Van Rhyn het die eerste keer op 7 Maart in die hof verskyn en het verkies om nie om borgtog aansoek te doen nie. 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