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U.S. woman awaits sentence for murdering adopted Russian girl

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A U.S. court will hand down a sentence Thursday in the trial of an American woman found guilty of the second-degree murder of her adopted two-and-a-half year-old Russian daughter in 2005.

WASHINGTON, March 1 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. court will hand down a sentence Thursday in the trial of an American woman found guilty of the second-degree murder of her adopted two-and-a-half year-old Russian daughter in 2005.

A source at the court in Manassas, Virginia, said Judge William Hamblin would sentence Peggy Sue Hilt, who confessed to having killed Nina Hilt, at a court session beginning at 9:00 a.m. (2:00 p.m. GMT).

Hilt, now 34 and formerly president of her husband Christopher's computer firm, faces a prison term of 5-40 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 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 perfectly sane, including during the lethal beating.

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