Van der Sloot taken to prison on murder charge LIMA, Peru – Angry Peruvian onlookers shouted "Disgrace!" and "Murderer" at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a judge ordered him jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the violent killing of a 21-year-old Lima woman.
Prosecutors said the Dutchman, who was taken to a segregated block of an eastern Lima prison, acted with "ferocity and great cruelty" in killing business student Stephany Flores in his hotel room after they met playing poker.
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Lima Superior Court Judge Juan Buendia issued a detention order before dawn for Van der Sloot on the murder charge. He was first taken with other prisoners in an armored truck to Lima's judicial palace, then alone to the maximum-security Castro Castro prison.
Police manhandled Van der Sloot as they ushered him to the judicial palace, a scarf around his neck and his hands cuffed behind him.
The 6-foot-3 (190-centimeter-tall) Van der Sloot took about $300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and Flores' national ID card, Guardia said. He said the suspect abandoned her car in a lower-class Lima neighborhood before fleeing south to Chile by bus.
If convicted on the murder and robbery charges, Van der Sloot would be sentenced to between 15 and 35 years in prison, court spokesman Luis Gallardo told the AP.
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At Castro Castro prison, Van der Sloot was fed the Peruvian chicken dish "seco de pollo," prisons director Ruben Rodriguez said.
The Dutchman will have his own cell in a small block near the director's office.
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Van der Sloot's schoolteacher mother, Anita, would be arriving early next week with the family's own media adviser.
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“The Dutchman will have his own cell in a small block near the director’s office.”
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I’m going to guess prison officials want to keep an eye on him...make sure he doesn’t commit suicide or one of the other prisoners doesn’t harm him before he is tried and convicted. It does, however, smack of some favoritism and special treatment.
Watched the video last night of the police bringing him into the building surrounded by media. LOVED how they crammed his head down while they shepherded him into the building in stark contrast to how he was treated in Aruba.