MEXICO:A Mexican priest has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for killing a son he did not want his superiors to discover.
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, who fathered the child with a woman identified as Maria Felix Hernandez Espinoza, was afraid the church would learn of the child's existence and remove him from the priesthood, authorities said in a statement. Valle was a priest in the city of Texcoco, just east of Mexico City.
Valle kidnapped his son, who sources say was eight years old, in the city of Ecatepec on September 14th, 2005, and brought him to the north-central state of Guanajuato, where he killed him. -