Saudi cleric gets 8 years prison for killing child

The official Saudi news website Sabq said a prominent Muslim preacher has been sentenced to eight years in prison and 800 lashes for raping and beating his 5- year-old daughter to death.

Fayhan al-Ghamdi, who often preached on television, was convicted of beating his daughter Lama with canes and electrical cables, crushing her skull. She was also raped repeatedly and died in a Saudi hospital in November 2012. Al-Ghamdi was not given a harsher sentence because Lama's mother accepted $267,000 from her ex-husband as "blood money" allowed under Saudi law. (AP)