A South African mother who sold her six-year-old daughter got life in prison Thursday for kidnapping and trafficking the girl. Her boyfriend and their friend were also convicted.

Little Joshlin Smith, who has a fair complexion and turquoise eyes, disappeared last February after vanishing outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town.

A South African mother who sold her six-year-old daughter got life in prison Thursday for kidnapping and trafficking the girl. Her boyfriend and their friend were also convicted.

A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment for trafficking her then-6-year-old daughter.