Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot is pictured during a hearing at the Lurigancho prison in Lima on January 13, 2012. Van der Sloot, who pleaded guilty earlier this week to the murder of a young Peruvian woman in 2010, will hear the sentence today.
V Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, was beaten in a Peruvian prison over the weekend, according to his lawyer, who is requesting better security for his client.
Van der Sloot, 36, is imprisoned at Challapalca Maximum Security Prison in Lima, Peru. He’s scheduled to be extradited to the U.S.
in connection with Holloway’s 2005 disappearance during a high school senior trip in Aruba. While never charged with the disappearance of Holloway, van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen, has been accused of taking $25,000 in down payments from her family for the false location of her remains.