POSTED: 2:14 pm CDT May 23, 2005
BEIJING -- China has reportedly sentenced a man to two and a half years in prison for digging up a woman's corpse and eating parts of her body.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the man dug up the woman's remains the same day she had been buried.
The news agency said a court ruled the man should be imprisoned instead of hospitalized for mental illness because he was capable of controlling his actions.
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