Amy’Leigh teacher trades classroom for courtroom
09 September 2019 - 07:00
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Image: Facebook Six-year-old kidnap victim Amy'Leigh de Jager who was snatched outside Laerskool Kollegepark in Vanderbijlpark on Monday.
Instead of welcoming a gleeful group of bright-eyed children into her classroom, a preschool teacher – the alleged mastermind behind the kidnap and ransom plot of Amy’Leigh de Jager – will stand in the dock of the Vanderbijlpark Magistrate’s Court.
The woman and two alleged cohorts, who cannot be named until they have appeared before a magistrate, were arrested last week after their brazen plot unravelled.
Their alleged scheme was set in motion when four men grabbed the grade R pupil from her mother, Angeline, outside the gates of Laerskool Kollegepark on Monday morning. They bundled her into a white Toyota Fortuner before speeding off.
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