S.African woman gets life for selling 6-year-old daughter

You're assuming they didn't take a quick look at your profile. It took ten seconds.

You misunderstood what I said and used to marginalize an entire country. This is why people hate you. You don’t even know if I’m American or not.

Fair enough 😂

Jesus Christ. This is why people hate Americans.

"Oh, wow, where did this take place?" "S. Africa." "Why didn't they just put that in the title? 😤"

Yeah there is entirely too little detail in this article.

Smith sold her daughter to a traditional healer, who was interested in her eyes and fair complexion.

This could be interpreted in an entirely horrific way. It's the middle of the night here. I was hoping to get back to sleep like :(

I guess it's in case the sentence gets shortened or she gets parole. "Life" doesn't always turn out to be life

Unfortunately "life" doesn't mean "untill death" in SA

If you google the kid she definitely doesn't have albinism. Which makes it even weirder that she was sold for body parts.

Apparently she hasn't been found yet, dead or alive.

Sounds like most likely dead given the circumstances. Just not proven yet.

Sometimes I wish I didn’t have empathy or feelings. The little person that is depending on you for safety and comfort and this is what they get, an atrocity. Monsters are real

The child had albinism.

There are known cases in other African countries where people with albinism have been killed and their bodyparts been used for "witchcraft" purposes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_people_with_albinism)

But it took a turn when prosecutors alleged that Smith sold her daughter to a traditional healer, who was interested in her eyes and fair complexion.

I think that implies that the child was literally butchered and its bodyparts sold.

It looks like the kid might have been sold to harvest her skin and eyes…. There’s a good chance she isn’t alive.

Assuming the child is still alive

Child receives lifetime abuse and trauma.

She receives the reward of life.

That's not enough.

The judge added her name to the child protection register. Isn't that a bit superfluous if she's going to be in prison for the rest of her life?

Then again lots of sentences don't make sense.

What happened to the "traditional healer" who bought the child?

Fucking wild that 3 people could have so little conscience between them.

I can’t think of any reason that her nationality matters outside of its relation to the South African farmers that were allowed to enter the country.