{"id":965724,"date":"2024-07-15T04:35:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965724"},"modified":"2024-07-15T04:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:35:41","slug":"four-accused-to-appear-in-court-over-joslin-smiths-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/four-accused-to-appear-in-court-over-joslin-smiths-disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Four accused back in court over Joslin Smith&#8217;s disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four accused in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/investigation-continues-for-missing-joslin-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the disappearance of six-year-old Joslin Smith<\/a> are expected to appear in the Vredenburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court in the Western Cape today.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl went missing from her house in the Middelpos informal settlement in Saldhana, nearly five months ago.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not been found, despite an extensive search.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/four-suspects-to-appear-in-court-over-joslin-smiths-disappearance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The accused include the child&#8217;s mother Kelly Smith and her boyfriend Jacquin Appollis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They face several charges including human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are in the process of analysing cellphone and forensic data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | Two months ago the four accused in the disappearance of the 6-year-old girl appeared in court:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvKrbP4ikW0?si=sQv8zxAbbj5orEmp\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl went missing from her house in the Middelpos informal settlement five months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":965725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1243,1244],"class_list":["post-965724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-joslin-smith","tag-saldanha-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}