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No jail for US army dog handler
A US army dog handler convicted of using his dog to abuse an inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison will not go to jail, a military court has decided.
Sgt Santos Cardona, 32, was instead sentenced to 90 days' hard labour. He will also be demoted in rank and have his pay docked.
He was found guilty on two out of nine charges of abuse and dereliction of duty at the prison near Baghdad.
He is the 11th US soldier convicted in connection with abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Cardona, had faced up to three and a half years behind bars, will have $7,200 (£3,800) docked from his wages over the next year.
A US military jury cleared Cardona of seven other charges of abuse at a court martial at Fort Meade in Maryland.
No senior officers have so far been convicted for the abuse at Abu Ghraib.
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