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Doctor convicted of killing sentenced in sex case

Martin MacNeill listens as he is sentenced by Judge Samuel D. McVey in Fourth District Court, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Provo, Utah. The Utah doctor convicted of killing his wife was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison in a separate sexual abuse case. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Tom Smart, Pool)
Martin MacNeill listens as he is sentenced by Judge Samuel D. McVey in Fourth District Court, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Provo, Utah. The Utah doctor convicted of killing his wife was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison in a separate sexual abuse case. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Tom Smart, Pool)

PROVO, Utah (AP) – A Utah doctor convicted of killing his wife was sentenced Monday to one to 15 years in prison in a separate sexual abuse case.

Martin MacNeill, 58, was convicted in July of sexually abusing his adult daughter in 2007.

Fourth District Court Judge Samuel McVey sentenced MacNeill after hearing from the doctor’s daughter, Alexis Somers.

Somers read a letter in court calling her father a “monster.”

“He destroyed my world and created a living nightmare in its place,” the Deseret News reported (http://bit.ly/1uPkadQ).