{"id":46043,"date":"2024-07-24T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/joshlin-so-vorder-saak-20240717-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:20:09","slug":"joshlin-so-vorder-saak-20240717-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/joshlin-so-vorder-saak-20240717-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshlin: s\u00f3 vorder saak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Piet Retiefstraat voor die Vredenburg-landdroshof was Maandagoggend (15 Julie) doodstil voor die verskyning van vier verdagtes in die vermeende ontvoering en verkoop van die sesjarige Joshlin Smith van Middelpos, Saldanha. Anders as met vorige verskynings het motors weer oorkant die pad geparkeer gestaan en het die ander instansies rondom die hof met hul gewone bedrywighede voortgegaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie verkiesing is mos nou verby,\u201d was die mening van \u2019n groepie vroue van Diazville, wat sedert die inhegtenisneming in Maart vanjaar die hofsaak getrou bywoon. Veronique Pretorius, Samonay Pietersen en Bianca Julius het van dag een af na Joshlin help soek en het al hul koppe gebreek oor waar di\u00e9 groenoog-meisietjie haar kan bevind. \u201cOns wil nie meer dink nie,\u201d het hulle ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die saak teen Joshlin se ma, Kelly Smith (33), haar k\u00earel, Boeta (Jacquen) Appolis (31), sy vriend, Steveno van Rhyn (27), en \u2019n buurvrou, Renze (Lourentia) Lombaard (31) is Maandag uitgestel vir die staat om die laaste los drade agtermekaar te kry voordat die verhoor in die hooggeregshof begin. Die vierstuks staan tereg op aanklagte van ontvoering en mensehandel vir die doel om uit te buit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Ntabazalila, \u2019n woordvoerder vir die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag, het buite die hof ges\u00ea die akte van beskuldiging sal met die beskuldigdes se volgende verskyning op Maandag 16 September in die Vredenburg-landdroshof aan die hof voorsien word. Di\u00e9 hof sal dan op \u2019n datum besluit wanneer die verhoor in Kaapstad sal begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

verslae nog uitstaande<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Kelly, wat nog twee ander kinders het en met haar vierde kind swanger is, het Joshlin op Maandag 19 Februarie by die Saldanha-polisiekantoor as vermis aangegee. Sedertdien kon geen spoor van die kind gekry word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die staatsadvokaat, Aradhana Heeramun, het ges\u00ea nog forensiese bewyse is vir ontleding weggestuur en ander uitslae en verslae is uitstaande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al vier beskuldigdes moet nog pleit. Indien een van hulle skuld beken en die ander nie, k\u00e1n die sake dalk geskei word. N\u00e1 die pleit mag die saak egter nie meer teruggetrek word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ntabazalila het ook ges\u00ea \u2019n klag van moord kan eers oorweeg word as \u2019n lyk gekry word. \u201cOns weet steeds nie of sy lewe of dood is nie.\u201d Hy het benadruk die NVG is tevrede dat die staat se saak en bewyse sterk genoeg is om die beskuldigdes skuldig te bevind. Volgens Ntabazalila oorweeg die staat op hierdie tydstip geen ander beskuldigde nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy het te kenne gegee dat Kelly w\u00e9l met die ondersoekspan praat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadat die hof verdaag het, het \u2019n groep gemeenskapslede hul ontevredenheid oor die uitstel van die saak aan lede van die media oorgedra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die kriminoloog Bianca van Aswegen, nasionale ko\u00f6rdineerder van Missing Children SA, meen verskeie faktore het daartoe bygedra dat Joshlin se verdwyning ongekende belangstelling ontlok het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die feit dat haar saak soveel aandag in die media en op sosiale media getrek het, volgens Van Aswegen, het ongelukkig ook \u2019n politieke doel gedien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDit was net voor die verkiesing en politieke partye het by die saak betrokke geraak \u2013 iets wat ons nog nooit vantevore met \u2019n vermiste kind gesien het nie. Dit het \u2019n baie groot rol gespeel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

onregverdig<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Sy meen die blootstelling wat Joshlin se saak gekry het, kan amper as onregverdig bestempel word, want elke kind wat vermis raak, verdien volgens haar dieselfde aandag van politieke partye. \u201cElke kind wat vermis word, het sulke aandag nodig.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Aswegen verwys ook na die vloedgolf vals inligting wat oor die Joshlin-saak op sosiale media versprei is voordat dit enigsins nagegaan en bevestig is. \u201cDit het \u2019n baie groot invloed op s\u00f3 \u2019n saak. Sosiale media help ons om die gesig van \u2019n vermiste kind daar buite te kry, maar verkeerde inligting kan die ondersoek belemmer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die omstandighede waaronder Joshlin verdwyn het, is volgens Van Aswegen ook nie uniek nie. \u201cDit is omstandighede waarin ons baie kinders in ons land sien verdwyn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haar hart gaan steeds uit na Joshlin se familie en sy doen \u2019n beroep op enigeen wat inligting oor Joshlin se verdwyning het, om met Missing Children SA by missingchildren.org.za of hul naaste polisiekantoor in verbinding te tree. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weslander het verlede week volledig berig <\/a>oor hoe die strafproses werk en die wetlike stappe wat gevolg moet word (\u201cJoshlin: Waarom is saak so stil?\u201d 11 Julie 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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