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South African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughter

S.African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughter. [File, Standard]

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country.

Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never been found.

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