Smith, 35, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday (May 30) for her involvement in her child’s disappearance, alongside two accomplices, with harrowing testimonies revealing how she had offered to sell her three children for roughly $1,100 in local currency.
One local pastor told the jury that in 2023, he heard the evil parent – whose full name is Racquel Chantel Smith – talk of selling her children, even saying she’d accept as little as $275 for one of them.
Smith’s own mom, Amanda Smith-Daniels, desperately plead with her daughter from the courtroom, asking her to ‘bring my [grand]child back or tell me where she is’.
Speaking to Newzroom Arikka, she also said: “I don’t feel that any sentence they get will bring my grandchild back,” adding that Joshlin’s disappearance had left her family ‘broken’.
Lourentia Lombaard, a friend and neighbor of Smith, alleged that the mother had sold her daughter to a sangoma – a traditional African healer.
Speaking in court, she claimed: “[The] person who [allegedly took] Joshlin wanted her for her eyes and skin.”
While a teacher of the little girl also told the jury how during the national manhunt for Joshlin, Smith said that her daughter was ‘on a ship, inside a container, and they were on the way to West Africa’.
Over 30 witnesses shared horrifying insights into what may’ve happened to Joshlin, with Smith’s boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and friend Steveno van Rhyn also receiving life sentences.
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