A Polish national received an eight- to 10-year prison sentence Tuesday for torturing a dog that became known to the world as “Puppy Doe,’’ bringing a long-awaited reckoning in a case that had infuriated animal rights activists.

The sentence for Radoslaw Artur Czerkawski, 37, came during a hearing in Norfolk Superior Court, according to the district attorney’s office. A jury had convicted him of 12 counts of animal cruelty on Monday.

Czerkawski, a former Quincy resident, arrived in the United States on a student visa in 2008. He was charged with inflicting abuse on a pit bull named Kiya, leaving the dog with broken bones, burns, dislocated joints, a split tongue, and a stabbed eye. The dog was euthanized in 2013.

Czerkawski is also serving previously imposed prison terms for stealing about $4,500 from a New Bedford church in 2012 and $130,000 from a 90-year-old woman he had been caring for before she died.

He’ll be subject to deportation proceedings when he completes his sentences.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.