This is how the family of a Vanderbijlpark girl feels after her kidnappers were sentenced on Thursday.

Former teacher Katharina Human and her co-accused got between five and ten years for kidnapping and were also convicted for attempted extortion.

They had all pleaded guilty to abducting the then 6-year-old outside a school in September last year.

Katharina Human, Laetitia Nel, Pieter van Zyl, and Bafokeng Molemohi got into a plea bargain with the state and admitted their crime.

Human - a 28-year-old former teacher and the one dubbed the mastermind - will spend ten years in prison.

Nel - who was granted R25,000 bail last October for being the first to come clean - will spend five years in jail.

Van Zyl is expected to serve eight years behind bars and Molemohi is expected to spend seven years in jail.

All the accused dismissed any speculation that another person was involved in the crime.

The sentences for all the accused are effective immediately.

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