The body of 13-year-old Maddie Soto has been found after police have been searching for her for five days. The teen's mother's boyfriend, Stephan Stern is the prime suspect in the homicide case.
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we continue to follow breaking news in Oola County the body of 13-year-old Matty stto has been found the Orange County Sheriff's Office just confirmed that news Sky Fox is flying over a wooded area along Old Hickory Tree Road we're told Matty sto's body was found near there in a remote area Fox 35 Stephanie buffamante joins us live and Stephanie what can you tell us about this heartbreaking development yeah truly heartbreaking we are learning that meline sod's body was found right near where I a
m standing on Hickory Tree Road and they found her body around 4:30 this afternoon according to the Sheriff's Office in a very wooded area and a source tells Fox 35 that it takes a couple of miles to get to where her body was found by foot I want to just show you what it looks like over here right now you can see we're blocked off um at this intersection a sheriff's office Deputy blocking off the area where they say that they found mine's sodos body and now this is Sky fox video of teams out her
e searching this area and this of course comes after the Orange County Sheriff John Mina said that he was confident that Maddie was dead and that they were working to find her body that was the latest we had heard from earlier this afternoon and now we are getting this heartbreaking update that her body was found I want to show you a picture of this car this is Stefan Stern's car who was Maddie's mom's boyfriend he was a suspect in her homicide case um he was last seen driving a silver Lincoln a
nd in this area of Old Hickory Tree Road and Noti Road and now of course we are learning that her body was found in a wooded area uh we of course um are going to try to find out any more information about this case and we will bring it to you live for now reporting live Stephanie bonti Fox 35 News
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How often do we hear of this? The mother's boyfriend assaulted and kills her child....so sick of it! 😠
He left her out in woods. Bugs. Animals. He's beyond disgusting.
the two most dangerous words for children - Mommy's Boyfriend.
now arrest the mother.
People protect your children, don’t trust anyone with your kids. This is tragic and sickening! May you rest in peace Madeline❤sorry for how cruel the world was to you. May there be justice for you! 😢
What tf is wrong with people
Women you need to really vet the men you hang with, this is happening too much , sad
Mother is just as suspicious as boyfriend.
The mother needs to take a deep look into where she missed signs of sexual abuse …. Or did she just excuse them …… and not believe her daughter…. Shame Shame …. You don’t let your boyfriend look after your teen girls …..
I bet the offender is having a panic attack right now.
Poor little girl. I raised my daughter from the time she was 4 years old as a single parent while I was serving in the military. When I retired and came to where we live now, I met a beautiful single Mom of a 6 year old girl, and we've been together and married for the 23 years since. My step daughter calls me Pops, and I call her my daughter. Never, ever once did it ever occur to me to do anything other than everything I could to protect those two little girls, now young women. There is only really one suitable punishment in my mind for this sort of crime. I hope he gets it.
Thank goodness Florida has the death penalty.
the $hit needs to stop... wtf have we become, what is happening to the society
I don't understand. How does one kill someone, toss out the body, and think you can just keep it moving? Like you think you will get away with this??
Madeline we are so sorry. Love you and rest in peace babygirl ❤
I'm so sad God please help our kids!!!
Madie, Im so sorry your mom showed very poor judgement and let you down by bringing the de vil in to your home. May your soul be at peace. May the perp get prison justice.
This girl should not be dead. I was saying to my husband that it seems like single mothers need to do a background search before they introduce a man into their lives. I wonder if Madeline felt secure enough to say something about what she felt about the boyfriend. This is such a tragedy all around.
There should be a law, when mom's boyfriend harms a child mom goes to prison too.
It will be painful to find out what was done to this innocent angel. RIP sweet little girl.