Tue Nov 30, 2021 – 3:24 pm EST
(Live Action) – A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a five-week-old preborn child, after attacking his wife upon learning she was pregnant.
Joel Luna, age 37, was sentenced on November 17 for capital murder of a child under 10, as well as aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury in the attack on his wife and baby. According to Odessa American, police had been called to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, on May 1, 2018, in response to a call about an assault victim.
After an investigation, police determined that Luna, after learning his wife was pregnant, began choking her. He continued to choke her until she lost consciousness. Then he knelt on her abdomen and repeatedly applied force while saying he wanted to kill the baby. When his wife was able to seek medical treatment, she learned from the doctors that she was about five weeks pregnant and that she had lost the baby.
In addition to life in prison for killing the preborn child, Luna was sentenced to 36 years in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institution for the
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