http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/21/american-couple-gets-prison-time-in-indonesia-suitcase-killing-woman-mother/?intcmp=latestnewsBALI, Indonesia – An Indonesian court found an American couple guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced them to prison on Tuesday in the killing of the woman's mother on the resort island of Bali.
The Denpasar District Court sentenced Tommy Schaefer to 18 years in prison and Heather Mack to 10 years for intentionally killing Sheila von Wiese-Mack while vacationing last August. The badly battered body was found stuffed in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at the St. Regis Bali Resort.
The three-judge panel said it decided to be lenient toward Mack, 19, because she recently gave birth.
"Her newborn baby badly needs a mother's love and breastfeeding," the verdict said.
The court ruled that Schaefer, 21, was guilty of battering von Wiese-Mack to death in a hotel room at the resort, and that his girlfriend Mack had helped with the Aug. 12 killing.
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but please have mercy on my soul and that of my daughter Stella, as I miss my mother and father so very much. Amen
bold type mine. She misses the same mother she helped put in a suitcase?
