MANASSAS, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. woman was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison with a possible extension of 10 years for killing her adopted Russian daughter in 2005.
Judge William Hamblin handed the sentence down to Peggy Sue Hilt, 34, in the district court of Manassas, Virginia.
Hilt will serve a mandatory 25 year term, and if after her release her behavior is judged not to meet requirements laid down by the court she will be returned to prison for a further 10 years.
The child, originally named Viktoria Bazhenova, had lived in an orphanage in the Siberian city of Irkutsk before the adoption.
On July 2, 2005, Hilt was visiting her friends in Manassas, where she had arrived from North Carolina, when she called an ambulance to say Nina had stopped breathing. An autopsy showed that the girl had died of heavy blows to the stomach.
Hilt then admitted to having flown into a rage against the child.
According to the case materials, Hilt first shook the baby and then threw her to the floor and started beating her in the stomach. She then picked the girl up and continued the beating.
Medical examinations showed that Hilt was sane, including during the lethal beating.
U.S. woman given at least 25-yrs in Russian adoption killing
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A U.S. woman was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison with a possible extension of 10 years for killing her adopted Russian daughter in 2005.
