The three people convicted in the disappearance case of six-year-old Joshlin Smith have each been sentenced to life for human trafficking and ten years for kidnapping.

The sentences of the girl’s mother Kelly, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn will run concurrently.

The girl disappeared from her home in the Middelpos informal settlement in Saldanha Bay, in February last year.

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