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Claims and denials of police torture dominate week five of Joslin Smith kidnapping trial

Mail Guardian South Africa 03 Apr 2025
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Another senior officer denies torture allegations in Joslin Smith kidnapping trial

Mail Guardian South Africa 02 Apr 2025
A senior police officer on Wednesday firmly rejected allegations that two men accused in the kidnapping and trafficking case of missing six-year-old Joslin Smith were tortured into making confessions.
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Judge condemns cyberbullying as Joslin Smith kidnapping trial enters fifth week

Mail Guardian South Africa 01 Apr 2025
The judge presiding over the high-profile trial of three people accused of kidnapping and trafficking six-year-old Joslin Smith on Tuesday lashed out at what he described as a campaign of cyberharassment.
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Defence lawyer for accused one in Joslin Smith trial says client was tortured

Mail Guardian South Africa 28 Mar 2025
Joslin disappeared from her Saldanha Bay home on 19 February 2024, and the accused are her mother Kelly Smith and her boyfriend Appollis, as well as the pair’s friend, Van Rhyn.
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Star witness continues to unravel on the stand in Joslin Smith trial

Mail Guardian South Africa 27 Mar 2025
Lourentia Lombaard irks the judge with her ‘assumptions’, while Kelly Smith is again portrayed as a callous mother ... Subscribe. Subscription enables ... ....
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Star witness in Joslin Smith case says silence was driven by fear, drugs and hush money

Mail Guardian South Africa 26 Mar 2025
The state’s star witness in the trial for the kidnapping and human trafficking of six-year-old Joslin Smith returned to the stand on Wednesday, admitting to repeatedly lying to police and the media about her knowledge about the child’s disappearance.
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Joslin Smith: State witness again falls ill during cross-examination drama

Mail Guardian South Africa 25 Mar 2025
Joslin, who was six at the time, has not been seen since Monday 19 February 2024 ... The handing over of Joslin to the sangoma was only to take place on Monday ... Mkabayi’s cross-examination then turned to the morning of the Monday that Joslin went missing.
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Court hears that Kelly Smith orchestrated Joslin’s sale to sangoma, others probably involved ‘by chance’

Mail Guardian South Africa 24 Mar 2025
“She was the one on the Sunday, according to you, who took Joslin in the car, she gave all the instructions about keeping Joslin at home and that she would come back about 2pm on the Monday.
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Noble County native shares goals as leader of Black Pine Animal Sanctuary

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 22 Mar 2025
A new face is leading the only internationally accredited sanctuary in Indiana ... .
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Joslin Smith: Could the state’s ‘unsophisticated’ witness sink its case?

Mail Guardian South Africa 21 Mar 2025
Lourentia Lombaard, the accused-turned-state-witness in the kidnapping and trafficking trial, has repeatedly lied to police ... Subscribe. Subscription enables ... ....
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Joslin Smith: State’s star witness breaks down as judge questions inconsistencies

Mail Guardian South Africa 19 Mar 2025
Lourentia Lombaard, the woman who was initially an accused in the kidnapping and human trafficking case of young Joslin Smith, burst into tears and had to be helped from the stand while testifying at the Western Cape high court on Wednesday.
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South Henry approves improvements for cafeteria

The Courier Times 18 Mar 2025
The Tri school cafeteria is getting a facelift in the near future ....
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One honeysuckle bush at a time

The Courier Times 18 Mar 2025
As the sun attempted to peek out of the cloudy sky over Memorial Park, Helen Steussy and several other volunteers got to work cutting down honeysuckle trees ....
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Joslin Smith was wanted by sangoma for her ‘eyes and skin’

Mail Guardian South Africa 17 Mar 2025
The suspect turned state-witness in the Joslin Smith kidnapping and human trafficking trial has told the Western Cape high court that the child was wanted by a sangoma for her “eyes and skin” ... “She said to me she knew what she did with Joslin.
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Editorial | Joslin: Is the state at fault too?

Mail Guardian South Africa 14 Mar 2025
Testimony this week suggests that Joslin Smith should have been taken into state care long before she went missing on 19 February last year, when she was six ... She was allegedly in a physically abusive relationship with Joslin’s biological father.

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