I can’t grasp the selfishness of you, the deplorability of your actions,” Madeline’s father Tyler Wallace told her killer.

Stephan Sterns pleaded no contest to murder and guilty to sex crimes on Monday in the repeated sexual abuse and death of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, one day before jury selection in his trial was set to begin.

A Central Florida man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter, who went missing and was found dead months later.