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Former Dallas police officer Amber Geiger was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison

for killing 26-year-old Botham Jean in his apartment.

At the sentencing phase, Jean's younger brother told her,

I think giving your life to Christ would be the best thing that Botham would want for you.

He added, I love you as a person, and I don't wish anything bad on you. He then asked the court

for permission to hug her. The image of the two embracing made national headlines.

The prosecutor said that in 37 years of practicing law, I never saw anything like that.

Brant Jean was right about his older brother's character and faith.

Botham Shem Gene was born in St. Lucia, an island in the Eastern Caribbean.

He became a Christian at an early age and began preaching as a teenager.

He sang in his church choir in St. Lucia,

in college, and at Dallas West Church of Christ, where he led the congregation in worship the

Sunday before he was killed. CNN reports that after Brant Jean's remarkable act of grace,

District Judge Tammy Kemp gave Geiger a Bible and also hugged her.

You can have mine. I have three or four more at home, the judge said. This is the one I use every day.

This is your job for the next month. It says right here, John 316. And this is where you start.

For God so loved the world. Clearly, neither Brantzine nor

Judge Kemp intended to minimize the horrific pain caused by Geiger's actions. Rather, we should

see their gracious acts as personifications of the gospel's transformative power. When we know we have been

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