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Advocate Barbie one step closer to being released─── 07:42 Sat, 01 Dec 2012
Pretoria - Cezanne Visser, the former advocate who became known as "Advocate Barbie", has won the first round of her battle for release from prison. Visser is presently serving a seven-year jail term for indecently assaulting young girls and women, the manufacture and possession of child pornography, and defrauding a children's home. She started serving her sentence in May 2010 after the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed her application for leave to appeal. Visser launched a review application in the High Court in Pretoria after the parole board in August found she was not a suitable candidate for the conversion of her sentence into correctional supervision. Judge Tati Makgoka ordered the parole board yesterday to consider Visser's suitability for recommendation to the sentencing court, for the conversion of her sentence to correctional supervision before January 31 next year. - Sapa
