She's a bundle of love and I’m proud of her, says kidnap teacher's dad

20 September 2019 - 08:00 By Iavan Pijoos
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Tharina Human appears in the dock ahead of court proceedings on September 19 2019. Human is accused of kidnapping six-year-old Amy'Leigh de Jager.
Tharina Human appears in the dock ahead of court proceedings on September 19 2019. Human is accused of kidnapping six-year-old Amy'Leigh de Jager.
Image: Alaister Russell/The Sunday Times

“She is a bundle of love. That’s what she is.”

That’s how teacher Tharina Human’s father, Riaan Botha, described her after the first day of her bail application in Vanderbijlpark on Thursday.

Human, 27, Leatitia Nel, 40, and Pieter van Zyl, 50, stand accused of kidnapping Amy’Leigh de Jager outside the Kollege Laerskool on September 2 2019.

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