Priest gets 55 years for son’s murder
A Mexican priest has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for killing his son, whom he did not want his superiors to know about, prosecutors said.
The Rev. Dagoberto Valle Arriaga confessed to killing his son, Oscar Emmanuel Valle Hernandez, two years ago, said the attorney general’s office for the central state of Mexico.
Valle was afraid church officials would remove him from the priesthood if they learned of the child, authorities said in a statement.
Valle was a Roman Catholic priest in the city of Texcoco, just east of Mexico City. A telephone call to the diocese in Texcoco was not returned immediately.
Authorities did not release the exact day of the murder or the age of the child.
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