According to the indictment, Schoeman approached the mother to “buy” the victim from her and they agreed on R160,000. He allegedly also made a down payment of R24,000 for the poor girl.
Eight months after Joshlin Smith vanished, and just as her family celebrated her seventh birthday on Wednesday, chilling details have surfaced about what could have happened to the little girl.
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It has now been seven months since six-year-old Joshlin Smith went missing from Diazville, Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape.
A woman and her cousin fell for a human trafficking scam disguised as a job opportunity, which turned out to be forced sex work in Thailand.
A German national was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport and charged with trafficking and fraud after being caught with two Madagascan women.
Last week, a woman who claimed to have been in Pollsmoor Prison with Kelly said she was told where the child was.
The mother of the missing Saldanha Bay girl, Joshlin Smith, is pregnant while awaiting trial behind bars in Cape Town’s notorious Pollsmoor Prison.
Police are investigating a possible case of human trafficking or smuggling.
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Ofelia Hernandez-Salas headed a transnational smuggling network that was responsible for thousands of people illegally entering the U.S.
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A daring escape by a human trafficking victim resulted in the rescue of three Thai nationals who were held captive at a house in Garsfontein.
Police and social workers are trying to figure out how a 5-year-old Turkish boy ended up wandering around alone some 2400km away from where he was separated from his family by the February earthquake.
According to the doctor, the man didn’t really appear to have any understanding of what it was he was signing up for.
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This is a truly terrifying issue in our so-called free world. Complicated webs of entrapment and underground nets of deceit are littered with sad and desperate stories like this one.