The mother of the missing Saldanha Bay girl, Joshlin Smith, is pregnant while awaiting trial behind bars in Cape Town’s notorious Pollsmoor Prison. Raquel “Kelly” Smith, a self-confessed tik user and the mother of the six-year-old has been charged with human trafficking and kidnapping. She has been charged alongside her boyfriend Jacquin “Boeta” Appollis, close friend Steveno van Rhyn and her Middelpos neighbour Lourentia “Renz” Lombaard.
Shortly after her arrival on 7 March at Pollsmoor, it was reported that Kelly was beaten up in the women’s awaiting-trial section by fellow remand prisoners resulting in her being placed in a single cell. Dolley-Major has asked the Department of Correctional Services to ensure the safety of the mother and her unborn baby: “I told them to follow up with her on whether she is pregnant and to make sure that she is held in a safe place because the baby can get hurt.
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