By: Natasha Archary
Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie who has been on the ground in the search for missing Joslin Smith has shared an update on the child’s disappearance.
McKenzie says that he was disheartened to learn that police called off the search for the 6-year old who went missing on Monday, 9 February after reportedly running out of money.
Speaking on a Facebook live, McKenzie said he couldn’t understand why the specialized kidnapping Task Force wasn’t deployed to this case.
Usually if someone has been kidnapped, the South African Police Service (SAPS) ropes in the Crime Intelligence National Anti-Kidnapping Task Team.
“What I want to know is how much money is allocated for the search of a missing child and how does the money get finished in just a week?
This is bigger than Joslin’s disappearance, this is about a child, and it could be anyone’s child who is missing and if it was your child you would want every resource to be used to find them.”
McKenzie said regardless of police calling of the search, community members and those who are still searching will not stop looking for Joslin.
There are currently 3 leads that teams are following, one is that Joslin was seen at Tygerberg Hospital, and a woman had seen the child and bought her a pie.
While the second lead took teams to a farm.
McKenzie says both Joslin’s mother, Kelly and her boyfriend Jacquin Appollis took a polygraph test on Wednesday which they reportedly passed, meaning they did not have anything to do with the child’s disappearance.
The PA leader who put up a R100 000 reward to anyone with information on the child’s whereabouts, believes that they are close to finding Joslin although all leads so far have led to a dead end.
