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As part of a plea deal reached with prosecutors, Jarred Harrell was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole, waiving his right to appeal, after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery and lewd and lascivious molestation. He admitted in court that he made the agreement in order to avoid potentially facing a death penalty.
Your name is monster. She was one of several relatives of Somer Thompson who took the stand in the tear-filled courtroom Friday to give victim's impact statements. Several of them noted that Harrell refused to look at them, including the slain girl's twin brother.
And now you're going to jail," yelled out the boy, now 9, after trying to stare down his sister's killer. The sister said she lost sight of Somer in a group of other kids leaving the school, according to the police report.
Beseler held up a map dotted with markers as he said on CNN's "American Morning" that detectives have questioned more than 70 registered sex offenders or predators living within five square miles of Somer's home. The landfill where her body was found is near Folkston, Georgia, 55 miles north of where the girl became separated from her schoolmates on her way home from school in Orange Park on Monday. The sheriff told the girl's mother Wednesday night that her daughter had been identified. Thompson, he said, was devastated.
Watch sheriff announce that girl's body identified ». Authorities will work to pinpoint where the garbage load that contained the girl's body came from, Beseler said. The garbage that was brought into that part of the landfill was collected in the Orange Park area, he had said Wednesday, noting that authorities routinely search garbage when a missing person case has been initiated. Share this on:. ABC News reported that people started to judge Diena Thompson — who was a single, working mother — about letting her children walk to and from school alone.
On Oct. After they rummaged through tons of garbage, they found Somer Thompson dead in the midst of the rubbish. She was dismembered. An officer initially spotted her brown hair, then her leg sticking out of the rubbish. Police learned through an investigation that Harrell was later kicked out of the home after his roommate found out that he was stealing and had child pornography on his computer, which was handed over to police. Harrell then moved in with his aunt in Meridien, Mississippi, where he was arrested and charged with 29 counts of child pornography in Feb.
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