LAVAL, Quebec - Robert Belanger was sentenced Friday morning to six years in prison for killing Ronia Mansourian on the streets of Laval last year while at the wheel of his car.

Judge Gilles Garneau ordered Belanger to serve five years for dangerous driving causing death as well as one year for leaving the scene of the Sept. 3, 2010 accident.

The two sentences are to be served consecutively, meaning that Belanger receives a total of six years in prison for his crime.

He has also been banned for driving a motor vehicle for 10 years after his release.

Mansourian's family was disappointed with the length of the sentence, but one member admitted nothing would have been enough.

"Even 15, 20 years is not enough," said Ronia's aunt, Marie Tatazian. "Nothing's going to bring back Ronia."

Belanger, 23, has already served one year in prison, so he is slated to be released from prison in 2016, although he could get out as early as 14 months from now if granted parole.

The time he has already spent behind bars will be subtracted from the sentence but not at a higher rate, as was formerly the custom in such instances.

Belanger faced a possible 14 years in prison for dangerous driving causing death, which could have risen to life in prison due to the fact that he fled the scene.

However Belanger's lawyers had sought a three year sentence, while the prosecution had asked for five years in prison.

"It's a severe sentence," said prosecutor Jean-Pascal Boucher. "The judge told everyone that it's severe, if you adopt that kind of conduct you will get some jail term and for many years."

The fact that the prosecution sought a five-year term angered the family of the victim, who had hoped Belanger would be sentenced to a longer incarceration.

"This is not fair, five years," said Ronia's grandmother Iskouhi Mansourian. "We cannot accept this five years. It's not enough."

In a July sentencing hearing Garneau suggested that he might sentence Belanger to more than five years.

Belanger ran down 15-year-old Ronia in Laval's Chomedey district last September, speeding through a red light where she was crossing a street near her school at the lunch hour. The force of the impact threw Ronia against a city bus. Belanger then fled the scene in his vehicle and the victim died one day later.

Belanger was driving with a suspended licence at the time of the fatal accident because he'd failed to pay multiple tickets. Over the course of his short driving career Belanger's permit had been suspended 24 times for failure to pay fines. He was even in trouble for not completing community service imposed as a penalty for his convictions.

This is why the 10-year driving ban once Belanger completes his sentence is impossible to take seriously for Ronia's sister Goldy.

"He will drive again," she said. "He did it before, he'll do it again. I don't understand."

For the family the timing of Friday's sentence is especially tough with Saturday marking the first anniversary of Ronia's death.

"Everything comes back," Goldy Mansourian said. "The tragedy, the accident, her not being here; everything just comes back."