Aunt gets just 2 years in prison for killing nephew after secret affair

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A Texas woman who had an ongoing affair with her nephew before fatally stabbing him was found guilty of murder Thursday – but was sentenced to just two years in prison for the “sudden passion” killing.

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Andira Abdelaziz, 37, had previously admitted stabbing Mohammed Abdelaziz, 25, telling a jury last week she did so in self-defense after her nephew pounded on her door on Aug. 9, 2016. The woman’s attorneys claimed her nephew verbally and physically abused her throughout their secret three-year relationship

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Abdelaziz had faced up to life in prison, but jurors took less than two hours to dole out the minimum sentence of two years after determining that she killed her nephew – whose uncle she married at age 14 – in “sudden passion,” thereby reducing the maximum sentence to 20 years.

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“She was trying to survive,” defense attorney Liza Rodriguez told the jury. “The state didn’t contest that she was a victim of domestic violence. Usually the woman is the one who is dead … If you believe she acted in fear for her life, find that she did this is sudden passion.”

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Andira Abdelaziz would have been killed by her nephew had she “not reacted with the instinct to survive,” Rodriguez said. Her nephew had sent dozens of text messages warning that he was coming to beat her, repeatedly calling her a “daughter of a whore” in the process

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The guilty verdict rocked Abdelaziz’s bitterly divided Palestinian-American family, leaving her son Mohammed, 19, stunned and unable to speak, while her husband, Karim, yelled in Arabic toward the other side of the courtroom, where Mohammed Abdelaziz’s relatives were sitting

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