A South African woman, found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter.

[Augusta]

A South African woman, Racquel ‘Kelly’ Smith, was found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter, Joshlin Smith.
Racquel was convicted alongside her boyfriend Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis, and their friend Steveno ‘Steffie’ van Rhyn, in the Western Cape High Court on Friday, May 2, 2025.

“The State succeeded in proving the guilt of Mr Appollis, van Rhyn and Ms Smith on the main counts," Judge Nathan Erasmus said.

 

[Starmix]

That mother is insane. She's useless. How could she kidnap and traffic her own daughter. I think she's under the influence of drug or being pushed by her boyfriend.

 

[eLdavis]

That's just pure heartless, honestly some persons and not worth calling humans. Imagine carrying the child for nine months and taking care of the child for six years, only to sell the child.

 

[Starmix]

That's just pure heartless, honestly some persons and not worth calling humans. Imagine carrying the child for nine months and taking care of the child for six years, only to sell the child.

Some mothers are like that heartless and evil. For me, mothers like that are insane and need to be punished harshly. They deserve 1000 whips.

 

[eLdavis]

Some mothers are like that heartless and evil. For me, mothers like that are insane and need to be punished harshly. They deserve 1000 whips.

Yes, no matter how hard things might get financially, selling a child is definitely not and should not be an option at all.

 

[Starmix]

Yes, no matter how hard things might get financially, selling a child is definitely not and should not be an option at all.

I'm wondering why some mothers are like that selling their babies. They are treasures in the family and the reason why marriage thrive.

 

[eLdavis]

I'm wondering why some mothers are like that selling their babies. They are treasures in the family and the reason why marriage thrive.

That's just to show howfar humans can go with greed, they can do anything, greed is a very powerful emotion that not everyone can control.

 

[Starmix]

That's just to show howfar humans can go with greed, they can do anything, greed is a very powerful emotion that not everyone can control.

Only a very few parents doing it and they blame it to poverty and God. They're ruthless and never care the agony of their child. They supposed not to become parents.

 

[Augusta]

Yes humans can be very greedy I wonder why. They can so seek money even in very weird ways.

 

[magnus2022]

This generation is worst than Sodom and Gomorrohea. How can a mother kidnap and traffic her own daughter! If she can do that to her daughter, what will she do to other's children! She deserve death by hanging.

 

[Augusta]

Africans always doing one crime or the other. its can be really terrible. it's well.

 

[Kross]

It is most likely because he did not have the resources to take care of the child b but that does not justify anything.

 

[Augusta]

She could not take care of the baby then.take the child tight orphanage than selling the child.

 

[Starmix]

A mother kidnapping and trafficking her child is not normal. She might have mental issues. There's no mother can do it if having a sound mind. That woman is mentally troubled.

 

[Augusta]

A mother kidnapping and trafficking her child is not normal. She might have mental issues. There's no mother can do it if having a sound mind. That woman is mentally troubled.

Yeah trafficking her child is not normal. She might have mental issues. This is why children should not be left with such humans

 

[Starmix]

How could a mother do that to her child? She does not deserve to be called a mother. Dogs and cats are better than her. These animals protect their pups and kittens.