Utah man who abducted, raped and threw six-year-old into canal to die accepts plea deal, jailed for 65 years
A man from Utah accused of raping and killing a six-year-old girl in 2012 has reportedly accepted a plea deal and been sentenced to 65 years to life in prison, according to reports.
The man, identified as 47-year-old Terry Lee Black, was reportedly sentenced on Thursday after he entered an Alford plea deal to aggravated murder, child rape, and child kidnapping, in the killing of six-year-old Sierra Newbold, according to the Daily Mail. An Alford plea suggests that even though the defendant denies guilt of the crime, they acknowledge that the prosecutors have enough evidence of a conviction.
He sat by her in their West Jordan church, then kidnapped, raped and killed her.
— Heidi Hatch (@tvheidihatch) October 11, 2018
Today 6 years later Terry Lee Black pleaded guilty. My thoughts are with the family and friends of little Sierra Newbold.
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