Indifference to disappearance? Cop tells court about his engagement with Joshlin Smith's mother after the Saldanha girl was reported missing.
Indifference to disappearance? Cop tells court about his engagement with Joshlin Smith's mother after the Saldanha girl was reported missing.The wheels of justice are finally in motion for little Joshlin Smith as the much-anticipated abduction and human-trafficking trial of the Saldanha girl’s disappearance case started on Monday in the West Coast town of Saldanha.
During Smith, Appollis and Van Rhyn’s first court appearance on 7 March, Senior State Advocate Aradhana Heeramun alleged that Smith instructed Appollis and Van Rhyn to sell Joshlin for R20 000. after a 36-hour interrogation at the Saldanha Police Station. The state alleges the child’s mother was handed something by an unknown woman in a white car on 18 February. The trio allegedly then discussed how to split the money. The next day the mother and daughter – with a bag of clothes – got into the white vehicle and drove away.Along with her two co-accused, a heavily pregnant Smith pleaded not guilty to the charges during her appearance at the packed court.
One of the houses was that of Appollis’s parents who told them that he no longer lived there, and only came to the house to eat.Gongotha testified that he could clearly see that the woman was not happy when she heard that Smith had left Joshlin in Appollis’s care. She allegedly scolded Smith for her actions.They then took Smith to the house of children who Joshlin usually played with, but it was in vain as no one had seen her.
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