The court where Dahbia Benkired, the killer of Lola Daviet, was sentenced on Friday. Frederic Munsch/SIPA/AP

A woman who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris three years ago was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.

Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old woman from Algeria, must spend at least 30 years in prison for her crimes against Lola Daviet , BFMTV reported. She is the first woman in France to receive the sentence – the harshest under the French penal code, BFMTV added.

In October 2022, Daviet’s body was found mutilated and stuffed into a plastic box in a communal area outside the building she lived in, a statement from the Paris police prosecutor said at the time.

The victim’s body was discovered just hours after

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