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US child-killer gets 6 life sentences

November 04, 2008, 06:50 AM Post Comments
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A federal judge in Idaho has sentenced a convicted child killer to three life prison terms for kidnapping and sexually abusing two children.

Those federal terms imposed Monday are in addition to three more life terms imposed the same day in state court for the murders of the children's mother, her fiance and the children's 13-year-old brother.

Joseph Duncan was sentenced to death in August for the 2005 kidnapping, sexual exploitation and murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene. The 45-year-old convicted pedophile also kidnapped the boy's younger sister.

Duncan was arrested weeks after the slayings and kidnappings and Dylan's sister was rescued when they turned up in a restaurant at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

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