A Manhattan couple who kidnapped their eight kids from a Queens foster-care center have copped a deal that cut more than 199 years off their prison term.
Mom Shanel Nadal, 27, and partner Nephra Payne, 34, had busted the kids out of the facility Sept. 19 during a family visit and then taken their brood on a three-state jaunt before they were finally tracked to Harrisburg, Pa., living out of a filthy van.
The pair today pleaded guilty in Queens Criminal Court to two counts of custodial interference in the second degree, while the more serious charge of kidnapping was dropped. Each of the eight counts they had been facing carried a maximum of 25 years.
Under the deal, they were sentenced to 90 days behind bars.
“It’s a huge victory — they were facing 200 years,’’ said their lawyer, Norman Steiner.
“There was no kidnapping, no felonies,’’ he insisted of his clients’ actions. “They took the kids out of foster care.
“My clients are very happy and would like to thank the district attorney for properly investigating this matter.’’
The couple didn’t speak at the hearing.
Steiner said the kids have since returned to the three homes where they were split between before they were taken by their parents.
Nadal and Payne plan to try to get them back in family court.
The pair said they had taken their kids — age 11 years to 11 months — because they feared that some of them were being sexually or physically abused.