Mexican general gets 52 years for torturing, killing man

Mexican general gets 52 years for torturing, killing man
April 28, 2016

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge has sentenced a general in the Mexican army to 52 ½ years in prison for ordering the torture of a suspect, then having his body burned, Mexico's federal judiciary council said Thursday.

The sentence was among the longest ever against a senior officer in the Mexican army. The council said the conviction came in a 2008 case in the northern state of Chihuahua.

The judge in the case did not release the general's name in the public case record. But the case number on the docket was the same as one linked in local media reports to Gen. Manuel Moreno Avina, who formerly commanded an army unit in the town of Ojinaga, across the border from Presidio, Texas.

Troops under the general's command detained a suspect in a soldier's death and tortured him for hours with electric shocks until he died. They then took the man's body to a ranch and burned it.

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