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23 Mar 2010 10:44

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World: 88 years old, going to jail: Ex-Nazi sentenced for crimes

He has reason to look dejected. Heinrich Boere was sentenced to life in prison for the 1944 killing of Dutch citizens out of retaliation for resistance fighter attacks. source

19 Mar 2009 10:40

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World: Josef Fritzl gets life in prison in Austrian incest case

  • Fritzl, when getting sentenced, apologized publicly and profusely for what he’d done – he kept his daughter in a dungeon for years and prevented medical care to one of her children. source
  • Fritzl – who pled guilty to charges of rape, incest, involvement in slave trade, murder, assault, and withdrawl of liberty – will serve his time out in a prison for abnormal offenders. source