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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lebanon County, PA) According to authorities, a father from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to life in prison for killing his daughter and dumping her body in New York. The office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday stated in a news release on Wednesday that Kabary Salem received this sentence for the October 2019 killing of Ola Salem, his twenty-five-year-old daughter. Officials confirmed that the 57-year-old Kabary Salem killed his daughter in Palmyra and then drove to a park in Staten Island, New York to dispose of her body. The cause of death that Ola Salem had was strangulation and blunt force trauma and her body was found in Bloomingdale Park in New York covered in branches and leaves.