'IT'S YOUR FAULT'

KELLY Smith blames her mother Amanda Smith-Daniels for getting a life sentence for the kidnapping and trafficking of her child Joshlin.

- BY MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

Kelly, her berk Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis and chommie Steven van Rhyn were convicted and damned to maximum sentences innie mang last Thursday.

They were found guilty of plotting to sell the little meisie with the green eyes to a sangoma.

The child has been missing since 19 February 2024, when Boeta and Steveno had taken her from her home in Middelpos, Saldanha Bay.

During last week’s sentencing proceedings, Joshlin’s ouma Amanda said in her victim impact statement that Kelly had made her and her two other children’s lives hell and called her “heartless”.

And now Smith-Daniels revealed that she has been admitted to a psychiatric facility for treatment for severe depression.