‘Advocate Barbie’ to be freed on strict parole conditions
CEZANNE Visser, widely known as “Advocate Barbie”, will be released from jail this week.
The Department of Correctional Services said the parole board had approved her release from tomorrow.
It was Visser’s third application for parole.
She was serving a seven-year sentence for indecently assaulting young girls and women, for the manufacture and possession of child pornography and for defrauding a children’s home.
She was convicted in February 2010 in the High Court in Pretoria after being arrested with her former lover, Dirk Prinsloo. She lost her appeal in May 2010.
Prinsloo fled South Africa while on bail. He disappeared while on a business trip to Russia in 2009 and was arrested in June that year in Belarus after an attempted bank robbery.
He was tried and sentenced in February 2010 to 13 years’ jail after being found guilty of theft, assault and attempted bank robbery.
James Smalberger, a chief deputy commissioner in the De- partment of Correctional Services, said Visser’s parole fell under the maximum category, with strict conditions that would be formalised tomorrow.
‘‘Visser, as with all other offenders in the same sentence category, had to serve half of her sentence, whereafter she qualified to be considered for placement on parole,” said Smalberger.
“Visser has complied with all necessary requirements for release and her parole has been approved. The department will not hesitate to place her back in custody should she violate her parole conditions.”