Phillipus Henrico van Rooyen, 39, the son of paedophile Gert van Rooyen, was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in jail by the Pretoria Regional Court on a consolidated charge of perjury.
Van Rooyen was charged with perjury in 1998 after he made conflicting statements to police between March 1995 and November 1999 about the fate of five missing schoolgirls, linked to his father and his father's lover, Joey Haarhoff.
The girls Joan Horn, Odette Boucher, Yolande Wessels, Fiona Harvey and Anne-Marie Wapenaar disappeared in the late 1980s.
Van Rooyen claimed that four former apartheid cabinet ministers were involved in a child smuggling network with his father, that the girls were murdered during satanic rituals and that they were sent to the Middle East.
Again naming the former politicians, Van Rooyen on Wednesday told the court in mitigation of sentence all he wanted to do was help the girls' parents find out what had happened to them.
Investigating officer, Inspector Carel Cornelius, testified the police had suffered extensive financial losses as a result of Van Rooyen's claims, because all leads had to be followed up.
Van Rooyen's claim had also seriously confused and traumatised the girls' parents.
Handing down sentence Magistrate Peet Johnson said Van Rooyen had shown no remorse, and that he had misled not only the families of his father's victims, but also the public and police with his claims.
He had, however, not succeeded in fooling the court, said Johnson adding Van Rooyen was on a "fantasy flight" for which the court would probably never find a place to land.
Johnson ordered that the sentence run concurrently with Van Rooyen's earlier life sentence for the murder of a teenaged Zimbabwean girl and mutilation of the corpse, for which he had already served a number of years. - Sapa