BERLIN, AL -- An Alabama man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his daughter's sexual abuser.
The Cullman Times reports that the 43-year-old man was sentenced Monday in a Cullman County courtroom after pleading guilty to murder in the June 2014 slaying of 59-year-old Raymond Earl Brooks.
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Brooks pleaded guilty in 2002 to sexually abusing the man's young daughter. He served 27 months of a five-year sentence and paid restitution.
Authorities say the father shot at a man who had been dating his stepdaughter, but the man was able to hide inside a convenience store. The father then drove to Brooks' home, where he killed him. The man was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for the first shooting.
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The Associated Press typically does not name victims of sexual assault and is not using the father's name to protect his daughter's identity.