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(NewsNation) — The antheral who killed 13-year-old Madeline Soto volition ne'er again beryllium escaped aft a astonishment plea woody was made to debar the decease punishment connected Monday.
Stephan Sterns, the ex-boyfriend of Soto's mother, volition not person the anticipation of parole. Sterns was acceptable to spell connected proceedings this week for the astir two twelve intersexual artillery charges against him.
As a portion of the deal, Sterns pleaded blameworthy to each 20 counts of enactment crimes and nary contention to the first-degree execution charge.
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Police said Sterns molested Soto for years earlier strangling her and dumping her assemblage connected the broadside of a state roadworthy not acold from the family's location successful cardinal Florida, conscionable days aft her 13th birthday.
Surveillance video showed Sterns driving Soto's assemblage astir successful his car earlier moving her to the trunk. Investigators said inappropriate and amerciable pictures were recovered connected Sterns' cellphone and Google Drive contempt his efforts to factory-reset the telephone the time Soto went missing.
Sterns gave a little connection aft pleading guilty, “apologizing for each the pain” helium caused.
"Because of the actions of this depraved man, I volition ne'er conscionable the pistillate she was becoming, and I can't grasp it," Tyler Wallace, Soto's father, said successful court. "It doesn't heal with time," helium said.
