Venezuelan psychiatrist sentenced in slaying
CARACAS, Venezuela
The attorney general's office said Wednesday that Edmundo
Chirinos was convicted of killing 19-year-old Roxana Vargas, whose
body was found with a blow to the head in 2008 in a park on the
outskirts of Caracas.
Chirinos had pleaded innocent to the intentional homicide
charge.
The attorney general's office says investigators found some
1,200 photographs of nude female patients in the psychiatrist's
home. It accuses him of drugging the women and abusing them.
Chirinos was a fringe candidate for president in 1988 who came
away with only a tiny fraction of the vote.
