Don’t hold your breath. Jen will be on the stand and Stephan’s defence will try and pin it on her but she is not going to be held accountable for her bad parenting unfortunately
She really didn't know....as a small child who went through this...the shame I Know Maddie felt kept her quiet and men can hide stuff in ways you can't even imagine.
@@niknewman9118 Nobody believes that her mom, Jen, didn't know. We might believe her if she hadn't reacted so weirdly to the photos of him sexually attacking Maddie. She literally called his parents to tell them to get him a lawyer. She clearly did not care about her daughter that much and her focus after finding all that gruesome information was on saving Stephen, and not on empathizing with her daughter, who had been sexually molested for years. All data points to the fact that she pretended not to know, but she knew what he was doing. She made like she didn't know, but it was very clear she knew and approved since she sent him regurarly to sleep in Maddie's bed all night. She might not have thought immediately he killed her, but I also didn't feel much feeling or worry on her part for Maddie's dissapearance.
I agree with you 100%, Cara! Jennifer Soto was the willing enabler, the one who allowed -- and even expected -- Sterns and Madeline to sleep in the same bed, especially when she needed "to get her rest." What mother does that?
I agree. What a loser mother she was and seemed her family didn't care what was going on either. That poor girl omg what a sad life she had. No love and no one seemed to care. 😢
Especially, when the daughter is STILL a child !! WHAT KIND of mother would ALLOW such an INFAMY on her OWN child ?? Being the s****l ab**e had been going on since the child was FOUR YRS OLD ?? TRUTHFULLY, My ONLY HOPE is they BOTH meet their END in prison !!
A very nieve one would certainly be that stupid.....sadly....my mom was very unaware of what I went through for 2...3 years. I was 6...7....8...it still haunts me some times...but it wasn't mom's fault. She had NO clue this mentally challenged man was "making me ride pony" in a very strange way...
My husband and I were together 35 years before he passed in 2022, we had three daughters between us, he would have NEVER allowed ANY of our GIRLS to climb into a BED with him, whether to sleep or otherwise! We also had 4 granddaughters and he was the same way with them! I dont understand what the hell the mother in this case was thinking, telling a grown ass man to SLEEP WITH HER DAUGHTER!
The MOTHER of Maddie should be locked up also …....she is just as evil as he is. I mean who sends their 13 year old daughter to sleep with her ex bf??Stephan said he had the world's shittiest birthday present ever? Gee, Maddie got murdered for HER birthday.
The fact that Jen Soto hasn’t been charged with anything yet is insane to me. I hope that it’s simply because they’re getting as much as they can out of her and in turn building the strongest case possible against her. But I swear if they end up offering her immunity or some nonsense like that, I will have officially lost faith in our justice system. Protecting a child is your #1 obligation. And it seems that she failed to do that and also facilitated this disgusting behavior and tragedy. If this precious child survived, she would have a lifetime of trauma to overcome. This whole case is so tragic. So many adults failed her and abused her. She gave all of the flags to people that were meant to protect her. Apparently she had to say the words “my mom’s boyfriend is raping me and selling photos and videos of it” for anything to be done. And even then, I’m not so confident anything by would be done. But in other jurisdictions and likely this one as well, parents get a CPS case over light spankings. Don’t leave a mark that someone else can see, it never happened. Our system is so broken. Send these two to the chair. Prayers for the rest of the family and Madeline ❤️
She was only given partial immunity so they could interview her. So anything she said in the interview can’t be used against her. However, if they find it another way she can be charged and brought to trial as well.
There is a difference in what the police does, they investigate and can charge arrest someone, and the justice system, meaning the prosecutor and court system. You need actual proof to find someone guilty in court. You can’t just charge or arrest someone, without evidence.
Jen as her mother SHOULD never had let maddie sleep with that creep she is responsible for that if she wanted a good night's sleep she should have GIVEN her own daughter a PROPER bedroom and not a screened off portion of a living area!! That everyone had access to..
Yeah, she was a bad mom. She's also delusional. In all the interviews she talks as if she and Maddie both wanted that creep to move back in with them, but Maddie was telling her councelor at school that she was glad he moved out because he made her "uncomfortable". She never asked Maddie if she wanted him in the house or not but speaks as if Maddie absolutely wanted him or loved him. She was projecting stuff. She didn't care about what Maddie was going through. She was delusional, thinking Maddie would have an affair with him and they would run away together. She's a mentally ill woman who completely misunderstood her role as a mom and her kid's position in life, the vulnerability and innocence of Maddie's age. I was disgusted when I heard that after the police showed her photos from Stephen's phone of him raping Maddie, her first instinct was to call his parents so they would get him a lawyer. This woman is a complete POS. Who does that!?
If there is nothing else as evidence, the worst they have on her, is abuse, and that may not be easy to get a conviction over, and if likely not a long time. They would need actual evidence she was aware of the abuse, and or murder, to charge her.
So is Maddie's mother. RIP baby girl, these people failed her so tremendously. Everyone failed her, people should have asked more questions, been more involved.
Victim-blaming and minimizing personal culpability is so typical of predators like Stephan Sterns. Even enablers like Jennifer Soto look at themselves as victims of circumstance. What a pair!
@farahmiller9849 Exactly, that's the most prominent thing that stood out to me, the very 1st time that I saw Maddie's picture. Just made my stomach turn knowing what that monster put that sweet angel thru all that time.
Yip how sad. I noticed that in her Birthday pictures trying to look so happy but deep down she was suffering from all that abuse from that goof loser boyfriend of her mother. Both of them should get life in prison.
Jenn Soto is 100% responsible. She put Sterns in Madddie's path. She was referring to Maddie as a body for Christ sake before Maddie was even found. I wish she could get life. Her face makes me nauseous. Her and her "good sleep" makes me sick.
I used to work with a guy who was arrested for having a years long relationship with a young teen. He met the girl when she was three years old because he used to date her mother. Mom went to jail and she called him for emotional support because He was a in school to be a social worker. When he got busted, he had pictures on his computer. And when he was arrested, he blamed her saying “she didn’t dress like a 15 year old.” he got like 10 years, but he gotten the most trouble for the pictures rather than destroying this poor child’s life.
I have a hard time looking at people straight in the eye when I’m intimidated or having general anxiety. I mean, obviously he has different reasons, but just putting it out there.
The mother is guilty “ and what kind of mother let her own daughter sleep with the ex , she knew this guy was sick and a liar not mentioning he is a totally loser , what kind of mother think and only her and her own comfort and sleep and send her daughter upstairs to room 4 ! She knew! How she can possibly no know the abuse for so many years, no way she didn’t know she is Guilty if not knowing she is guilty for serve her daughter in a tray to this predator ! Both can go to hell
What did he mean by "I didn't start this". I've always believed he is blaming Maddie. Pedos think they're gods gift to children so she came on to him. Also, as for the phone incident. I believe he brought that up to be one step ahead just in case it came up. I think he was already taking photos of Maddie and she was acting out the new normal.
I always thought he meant Jen, since Maddie was so young when this started, like 8 years old. Do you still think the same knowing she was 8 when pictures started? Maybe he’s lying and wants to blame Maddie.. I still think Jen started this
@@shannonhart9374 It's possible she didn't know directly and only suspected but chose not to say anything. I find it suspicious that after all this time he hasn't blamed her. I think he would have blamed her immediately if she had been involved directly. He's that type of person. But because she never participated in the abuse, he has no proof to tie her to it, so he has no bargaining chip. There is nothing he can do to get the police to give him a deal, except maybe confess. He seems like a narcissist so he is probably not confessing because he thinks he can charm a jury.
@@ciobalina7445maybe she has something even worse on him. He seems like a cowardly, weak, and socially unintelligent man. I could see her having something on him and that being why he took the fall alone this far.
@@ciobalina7445SS has to know that he's never getting out of prison. He's such a narcissist that he won't admit everything & save everyone else from more trauma. Absolutely no empathy...dead inside.
Certain times they make Madeline sound like she's childlike. Like saying she doesn't like to be alone and they're snuggle time. Then other times they make her seem different like she knew what she was doing she's a big girl she can walk to school from where he dropped her off now which is it?? So now we know what snuggle time was
When i heard SS say, "I didn't start it," I thought of what his mom said to him about always taking the blame or protecting his friends. Its SS's weaselly way of implying that he's the victim, and is nobly taking the blame rather than rat out his guilty friends. She fell for it when he was a child/teen so he still does it
I took it completely differently, that Jen actually looked for a man with this bent. There is much more to this story. Not saying he isn’t guilty, but the original releases from the police suggested he was engaging her immediately upon he and Jen starting to date. It is NOT normal for an eight year old to just accept that. I fully believe that in time it will be found that Jen had been selling Maddie throughout her life.
OR maybe he’s blaming Jenn….. Maybe she was a participant as well. There are those mommy’s turn/daddy’s turn coins. I could see a world where JS encouraged it in the beginning when she realized he had an attraction to kids.
When she had the autopsy, did they do a toxicology on Madeline? If so were her levels high?. Wouldnt they have found out if she was pregnant during any autopsy I would think so!
If she was pregnant, there would of been death for 2 people. Maddie and “her baby”. So far there isn’t any announcement about that however who knows maybe they are keeping certain potential evidence till trial? Who knows.
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His poor parents. The dad seems harsh, but I just think they are trying to accept their son is a monster. I think if they just say, yep, our son is a monster, it's easier to face it and just try to get on with THEIR lives, as best they can. 😢
What I think is all the latest arrests for the past year regarding Disney World employees. Is he connected to those people? He and Jen worked at or near DW if I remember correctly!
16:27 I am going to speculate that he asked his father to come to the hotel because, most obviously, he wanted him to pay for the room. However, the reason I believe he wanted his father to travel there and stay at the hotel with him and Jenn was so that he could acquire the keys to the storage unit, which dad probably kept on his keychain. Additionally, Stephan did not have a key to the family home, so with dad staying at the hotel with them Stephan has the opportunity to swipe both the house key and key to the storage unit. I believe the "ducks" are mostly hard drives and other digital storage materials brimming with all sorts of deviant illegal content, including child pornography - either created by him and/or collected by him. Beyond that, getting rid of more incriminating evidence. That being said, any stored material would be from a few years prior (as opposed to recent) as his access to the family home has been cut off for a few years now (as well as the storage unit, therefore hiding devices with new content would be difficult without the parents noticing.
I was just wondering where was her dad and why didn't he pay more attention to her. I know he lived in Texas with a new family. She didn't let anyone know what was happening to her in Florida with that pathetic excuse for a mother and that loser piece of krap so called bf of her mom. If she only opened up to someone and told.
Still don’t understand why this so called “mother” is allowed to enjoy her freedom... You don’t have to be a rocket-scientist to see her guilt... Btw this stephan creep is even physically disgusting. I’m an adult man and it’s hard for me to look at his shirtless pictures- imagine what it had to be like for this fragile child...
I had the exact same emotions and thoughts.🤮🤮🤮. My heart aches for Maddie because there was no adult in her life looking out for her best interests or protecting her from freaks like SS and possibly her own mother. 😢😢
I am catching the replay. If Maddie was pregnant, wouldn't SS be charged with two murders? And I think the coins had to do with the tamagotchi toys. Someone needs to feed them to keep them "alive".
This is beyond foul. That "mother", his parents, all were complicit, all helped this pervert in his abuse, his perversity, and ALL should be PROSECUTED. ALL OF THEM. When, WHEN, will people wake up, to the insidious perversity, that has taken hold, in this country, and PROTECT THE CHILDREN??
The fact that he did not dispute Jenn's connection when his father asked him about it leads me to believe she is definitely more connected than the police are willing to say/believe
Madeline was 9 years old or younger when this started and she started it. BS, BS, BS. Maybe Jen was involved, I do not believe Jenn Soto is innocent in anyway.
This has bothered me all along: If there were other people living in that house, why did JS call on SS to go and "watch her"??? Does that even make sense? I will never be convinced that there isn't way more to this story. JS should be in prison along with her cretin boyfriend.
Madeline didnt even have a real room of her own. Its so weird to me that she had her daughter sleeping in her bed like shes some sort of baby in the family bed. It just makes no sense. RIP Maddie
Dear Court TV Producers, Please never add background music to the jailhouse interviews. Also it takes about 15 seconds to run a notch filter on the audio to remove the white noise. It’s so easy to do better. Thx!
She didn’t want the Woody Alan situation but sends her child to sleep with her boyfriend. SMH… she was dead inside and showed no concern for her missing child.
Just the sight of Stephan makes me want to hurl, he is beyond gross and creepy. But I’m also completely disgusted seeing those images of Jenn sitting there like a helpless blob while being questioned when she literally handed her daughter over to a monster.
I feel when he said I didn't start it. That he was referring to Jen, she suggested it. She threw her daughter as bait to keep him " satisfied" that's what I think. I feel that maybe Mom did something to her and made Stephan clean it up as she had dirt on him. He's just a sick twisted deranged parasite we know he's guilty however Jen allowed to endanger her child for years not just once but years. She says it herself " grooming" woody Allen bs she even says Madeline at first as to blame her then catches herself. Weirdo. Jen went back home, she looked guilty, she never went to look for her, she never cried only when she was interrogated smh
I didn't start it! Stephan is talking about Jen, not Maddie. Jen was the one who strangled Maddie and Stephan hid her body. Jen must of discovered all the photos Stephan had on his phone that night and freaked. We heard the only time Jen really cried and meant it, was when she talked about the Woody Allen thing. And that's what she saw on his phone that night. Stop believing Jens dumb story of, "I needed a good night sleep." That didn't happen.
How wild would it be if it turned out J Soto actually killed precious Maddie? At this point, with her, I wouldn’t even be surprised if she did it herself and he helped.
There is way more to this case. Look into his associates & fathers. Look into all of it. Very interesting stuff. The storage facility and its history.Much More!
Hi, Gisela & Vinnie! SS certainly still doesn't take responsibility. This call is certainly proof of that. He's also so delusional. It's amazing he still thinks he's going to be free someday. Appalling, isn't it?
I don't believe the father told the truth. If SS went to his home and supposedly mom didn't let him in, but there's hardware missing. He goes over to a storage shed, rips out a hard drive and hides it right there!Don't get me wrong, I'm not questioning SS I'm wondering about his father and what he's willing to admit.
