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A Quebec man who slapped his teenage daughter to death after she failed to finish her chores has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Moussa Sidime is expected to serve his time two days a week over 30 weeks, plus two years of probation. He was reportedly emotional during the sentencing on Wednesday in court in Longueuil, south of Montreal.

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The 74-year-old man had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his 13-year-old daughter, Noutene, in October 2010. The court heard Sidime struck her because he didn’t like how she’d completed a chore and because she had been disrespectful, but he said he had never intended to cause serious harm.

Noutene’s family supported him throughout the trial, and testified in his defence.

“This was one of those freak accidents,” his adult daughter, Aissatou Sidime-Blanton, said after the sentencing. “If he could take it back, he would take it back.”

She said that the family is “extremely happy” with the sentence.