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'KELLY MADE OUR LIVES HELL'
Daily Voice
|May 29, 2025
Ouma of missing Joshlin gives a painful statement ahead of today's sentence
KELLY Smith and company face a sentence of life behind bars today after her eie ma said she has made a family's lives a living hell.
Kelly was found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter for R20 000 earlier this month, alongside her berk Jacquen “Boeta” Appollis and chommie Steven van Rhyn.
Ahead of today's sentencing, probation officer Errol Daniel Pietersen called for life for Kelly and Van Rhyn, while he recommended a more lenient sentence for Boeta.
In Kelly's case, he described her as abusive towards her children and “manipulative”.
He concluded that: “It is therefore not a stretch to conclude that Kelly Smith is the mastermind behind the trafficking of her own daughter.”
This story is from the May 29, 2025 edition of Daily Voice.
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