Dutchman Van der Sloot Sentenced 28 Years for Killing Peru Woman
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Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman who pleaded guilty to killing 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores, was sentenced in Lima to 28 years in prison.
The court today sentenced Van der Sloot, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 11 to strangling Flores with both hands in a hotel room after he met her in a Lima casino in May 2010, according to the televised hearing today. Prosecutors had requested a 30-year prison sentence. The court also ordered Van der Sloot to pay the Flores family damages of 200,000 soles ($74,239).