Hey Mike…. Your product page is good, except all your backgrounds are black so you can’t even see the items for sale (because it’s black too) anyway. Seeing as the holidays are approaching and people will want to give you their money 💰 😂❤
@@smartyjonez5470 and conservatives voted a convicted felon in as president. Weird how the party that insists they are tough on crime look the other way when it's their dear leader, eh?
Yep I just said the same thing i didn't need any more than that to know she was part of this. To he so calm when your child is missing is not normal. My son walked off one time at a fair when he was young I was beside myself looking for him.
@@Bbedkexbe2fu69. Likewise My son was 10 - he went around my mom’s block and just vanished. I ran, calling to neighbours if they’d seen him. Screaming, crying. First thing I did was call police. My cousin picked me up so we could drive around in the car looking. This was during the original Amber case, and I was hysterical. We now have Amber alerts. Thank goodness he was found safe and sound. Hiding out behind trees in the park. I’ve never ever been so scared in my life, and didn’t calm down completely even after he was found. MADDIE’S MOM IS NOT A NORMAL NATURAL MOTHER BY ANY MEANS! Put her away in prison to rot with her boyfriend!
I just started the video, so this is a general comment on reactions. Some people don't react like people expect. Personally, I can disassociate like nobody's business. No emotion at all. Neurodivergent people can generally have a flat affect. So just because someone isn't hysterical doesn't mean they don't care, they just might have something else going on mentally. This is one reason I hope to never wind up in front of a jury. My reactions are not "normal" and I smile when I'm uncomfortable.
@rosesanderson4625 I understand this point fully both my children are on the spectrum and they might not act like an atypical person her actions were just off key I dont know but do we know she's nurodivergent?
@alekhidell3644 She should be in jail awaiting charges. What did the tenants say about any observations of the living/sleeping conditions in the home? Surely there were somethings that made them suspicious. Where was the little girl's body found, and by whom? What were the medical examiners findings? Was she, in fact, pregnant pregnant. Were there any overt signs of abuse, old broken bones, recent bruising? This case is mindboggling? Why did the mother even want him around? She obviously did not have any relationship with him? Why did she let him stay there? What was the benefit for her?
@@loditx7706 I don't disagree with you, and your questions are good ones. I was only countering the OP, who said she "should have faced charges" as if that's no longer possible.
If she doesn’t end up in jail, Madeline hasn’t received her full justice she deserves, her mother failed to protect her and gave her daughter to a monster
@@rodiaszymczak6367no I’m pretty sure the immunity was only for that specific interview. She had to be completely honest, it didn’t matter what she had said prior to it. It’s not immunity forever. If there’s actually any evidence that she was aware, they will arrest her. The detectives told stern’s parents that they found absolutely nothing to prove Jenn was aware or involved.
I agree but if he blames Jennifer and has proof the police will have to arrest and question her to see if they have a case they have to check it out I think he will try to blame her @@saraha5847
That "mother" is involved in the case up to her eyeballs. She knew everything, she deserves to be charged along side her pathetic excuse of a boyfriend. Both of the people are absolute monsters and don't deserve to breathe the same air as us normal people.
@@stacitowery3475you shouldn't hold her more responsible than the person who actually harmed her child, but she is an absolute monster who also deserves life in prison
She's protecting herself...my mother did the same. Ultimately it came down to narcissism..the self...not protecting the predator OR the victim. If she could have thrown him in jail while remaining innocent to the law like Jennifer she'd have done the same.
She should be sitting in prison right now cause she virtually sold her child off 😮a young girl with no door or privacy living in a home with adults men is not " normal"😮
As a mother of two girls, I don’t believe for one second that the mother didn’t know. People leave trails when they’re monsters. I’m certain everyone in that house knew. That poor, sweet baby, deserved real love.
A woman in the US was recently charged for "allowing" her 11 year old son to walk alone to school. Can anyone tell me how THAT can be a crime and this woman still walks free?
This mother said to the police ‘I told Stephen he and maddie better not leave me, like a woody Allen situation. They better never do that to me”. What a horrific thing for her to say..she KNEW what he was doing to her poor little girl 💯😡
There are many things she said that she are like “wtf did she really say that?!!!” and it’s like why has she not been arrested? “The sex stuff not being evil” ugggh and making Maddie out as if she was dumb
You could tell when she acted like she had never seen those pictures before saying she didnt recognize them, INSTEAD of freaking out that her daughter was being abused!! Thats when I was 100% sure she knew.. fkn sick
You can physically see how the abuse took a toll on this child 🥺 from her pale skin to the dark circles around her little eyes. Poor baby can now rest peacefully without the daily worry of being hurt again with no one to protect her.
She was only having problems at school because he had been abusing her for years. She was ready to tell and he killed her. The mom knows what happened and she’s covering for him
@@jenniferdnoseworthy2348fortunately not a v bright pos. He thought he was the most intelligent and deserved to be in charge of everyone regardless of no education, experience, training etc. His intelligence led to him feeling safe about handing over his phone after he factory reset it TWICE. The cops just looked into his Google photos account and found it all.
23:00 Maddy literally wrote, "I also have severe trauma responses when I encounter all males that resemble my perpetrator," then crossed out "that resemble my perpetrator," and NO adults stepped in? No teacher ever noticed something was wrong? NOBODY came to help this little girl???
why would she be writing that in a list format in what looks like a school note book not a diary, i wonder if she was seeing some kind of school counciler and had hinted she had been abused in some way.
21:09 The description of what they saw in the CCTV footage, of Madeline dead in the passenger seat with her eyes wide open is truly haunting, the stuff of nightmares.
@@rangerman9241 It is so disturbing and so disgusting! Maddie never had a chance, Stephen preyed on her for so many years! He is sick, twisted, disturbed and a COWARD! I hate his slow soft sounding voice. It’s gives me chills every time I hear his voice! Where is Jennifer? She had to have known! I’ve thought and thought about this case and I can’t believe she had no idea? It’s very weird that Jennifer had her own room, Stephen had his own room and poor Maddie had a “makeshift room in the living room” that was never used! Stephen and Jennifer weren’t together at the time, he was living with his parents but yet Jennifer still had Stephen around Maddie ALONE, and on her birthday, make that make sense? I haven’t heard anything about where she is currently. I know the prosecution will use her as the main witness and source BUT it’s doesn’t mean she doesn’t belong in prison in my opinion! She is a criminal and let this go on and on for years! I’m also so confused by the roommate situation. Why have they not come forward to discuss anything? Especially now knowing that Stephen was taking pictures of one of them without them knowing! It doesn’t add up it doesn’t make sense! I hope they fry him as well as Maddie’s own mother! The entire “I need to take my sleeping pills and get a good nights rest so take Maddie upstairs and sleep in the same bed as her” is so utterly disgusting to me. She had to know exactly what was going on! I knew immediately that Stephen was involved with Maddie’s disappearance and death right away. The first officers that went to talk to Jennifer he immediately got off the phone, crossed his arms, kept pushing his hat lower and used that fake sad voice! HE is pure evil
I've been following this case. Poor girl never stood a chance with a mother and "father figure" like them. It's Sickening what this poor child endured for years. Rest in peace, Maddie
If parents aren't willing to love and protect their children, they shouldn't have them or be able to keep them. Once a child is scarred, it takes them a lifetime to heal, and many never even have a chance of that.
Straight off the bat you can tell mum knows something. Who says "she didn't make it"when she didn't go to school. The normal thing to say is" she didn't go to school today. "
This mother needs to be put in handcuffs for being a horrible horrible mother, it’s sickening to the core to see how she failed to protect her daughter for the benefit of this disgusting guy. Great coverage again as usual big dog
This is a fairly common phenomenon among certain types of women. Boyfriends don't have to be paedophiles but they are violent, often alcoholic. But they still find a justification for cohabitation.
The mother knew. Nothing she can ever say will convince me otherwise. She should be jailed for life and he should face the full fury of the law. RIP Madeline. I am so sorry this happened to you.
yeah that's because you've had a privileged life and have never been abused and most likely don't know anyone who has. I think that's great but judging things you don't know about makes you a bit of an asshole. Especially when you're slandering and wishing horror on another person.
@@Kalleesto Huh?? That doesn't even make sense. I HAVE been abused I KNOW A LOT of people that have been too. I have no clue what that is supposed to do with what she said. Whether you're abused or not, you should think it's wrong that the mother allowed this to happen. She knew it happened. They lived in small quarters, she let that man sleep with her daughter. She was not upset with her daughter being missing, she wanted a lawyer for him. And for that & because I know what it's like to carry the abuse your whole life, I do wish horror onto her. That little girl went through hell; years of sexual abuse, years of emotional abuse, years of feeling not protected by the one of the people who should protect you, & had her abuser end her life. You think I give a flying fk about either Steven or Jennifer? 😂
Stehpan said to his mother, "i didn't start it." Whatever the F*** that means. Also, Jennifer said in the police interactions that she "knew about the sex stuff" but didn't want to believe he could have done something evil to Maddie. SHE KNEW ABOUT THE "SEX STUFF"!! Why that pathetic excuse for a woman isn't behind bars baffles me.
I feel the same way. If I found out anyone touched one of my kids let alone the sick shit SS did to Maddie, thwould be out for blood. I'd definitely not alert them and tell them to "lawyer up." She knows something. Nothing will change my mind about that.
I lived through something similar, my mother's narcissism was insanely off the charts..total sociopathl. She didn't protect us, and god forbid my father killed a boy she never would come forwards. In fact when the neighbor alerted cops to my father touching her son my mother conspired with criminals to trash her house until she moved away..which she eventually did, no choice really..what they did to her home was vile - use your imagination.
To bring a child to this earth to just let them go through this… and maybe be a part of it… disgusting. Justice for Maddie!! May she rest in peace 🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️💖
@thisxisxmexabby, She ALREADY ADMITTED TO KNOWING THEY WERE HAVING OUTRIGHT SEX!! So SHE NOT ONLY KNEW BUT WAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE SEXUAL TRAFFICKING OF HER OWN CHILD!! GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT and STOP SUGAR COATING IT. CALL and SEE the situation for what it is......CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.
No one can tell me the mother didn't know. She's sitting there calmly, as they tell her about the assault her daughters has experienced for years 🤐 The fact she's not shaking with pure fury or trying to escape the room to what ever room he is being questioned in, is enough. She knew everything
That's terrible IF true. The problem with claims like this is we don't know if its legit or not. Case after case its been determined what law enforcement called "terrible images of abuse" in the end turned out to be nothing but innocent family pics and dirty minded law enforcement making the pictures out as something they never showed. For example, one woman had some photos of her toddlers, (2 years old) taking a bath playing in bubbles etc., and another running through the sprinkler in back yard, a baby girl about 2 with only shorts on. BOTH totally harmless, normal situations with families with babies. These images were called CP when law enforcement set out against her to get a conviction. And THAT'S the problem. Cops use every means they can to convict. Including lying! That said, its going to take a LOT more than them claiming they found (horrible pics). I won't believe a WORD of it, until a jury of 12 unbiased adults SEE THOSE PICS and see for real if its "CP" OR something that could be innocent, being trumped up by law enforcement into something its not, just so they can get a conviction, a feather in their cap, and a pay raise in February if this trial results in a verdict of guilty! People need to STOP being so naive and SO gullible, and STOP calling people "GUILTY" based solely on allegations from police! STOP! That's NOT how our justice system works! We are ALL INNOCENT until proven guilty by a jury of our peers in a court of law!! We are NOT proven guilty by a police department or by their allegations!!
@@jmflyer55bro it doesn’t matter if it’s 1 or 1000 photos, it’s still disgusting abhorrent behavior. The number is irrelevant to the deplorable acts that took place.
The poise those detectives have during the interrogation AFTER they find the photos is absolutely above and beyond. They HAD to in order to keep that monster calm enough to confess
It’s heartbreaking that it took Madeline’s death for her to find relief from these two evil and moronic “parents”. This was a hard chapter Mike, but thanks for covering it. We need to constantly be on guard in regards to the protection of children. See something? SAY SOMETHING!
The way the mother looked at the news station camera to plead for help she just looked so resigned like she already knew… that poor teenage girl had no one to care for her. No wonder she was struggling in school and had anxiety.
26:22 imagine her reaction if as soon as she finished her speech the detective followed up with; “what do you think should happen to you when you get to prison?”
@Littlemissdirtbag But if she was having trouble at school people she might have felt that people could not have helped her. She was groomed from a young age a lot of groomers do make sure that the person being abused is too scared to come forward.
What always got me was she was never concerned about Madeline . She knew what type of bf she had & had the nerve to act like she was in denial about what he did. This wasn’t the first time he’s done something… it’s just now he took it as far as he wanted to .
@@katharina967. 💯. That woman is not a mother. All she did was give birth. Even animal mothers protect their young. Someone should have taken that child from her. She’s not fit to be around children.
Oh poor sweet baby. Used her whole life, just for it to be taken away at the end. Seeing her journal about her trauma and anxiety broke me. Painful case.
I heard reports that she got immunity. Like how??!!! You don't need her testimony. She needs to be in jail and hell beside him. she won't be able to be out in public by herself without getting street justice
I heard that too. That is one of the most outrageous things about this case. I understand sometimes people get this kind of deal when they want more information that only a certain person can give,but they already have him caught pretty much red handed .
It's not perverse. He's telling a horrific true crime story. Just because it's sick doesn't mean it didn't happen.are the new stations in crime and Charles are they perverse to o. Mike didn't do this he tells true crimes that a lot are very horrific and he's telling a story@@roxanneb8844you can't be this ignorant
Maddie’s journal entry at 23:02 is absolutely heartbreaking. “I also have severe trauma responses when I encounter all males *that resemble my perpetrator.*” I wonder if Stephan crossed that out. RIP Madeline. You were dealt a terrible hand by the one person who was supposed to protect you.
I hope the prosecution team reads the unredacted paragraph in court in order to help illustrate Maddie’s torment by this sniveling two-faced monster and his close accomplice, her very own mother.
It's Jenn's. I compared the handwriting to other items in photos and it matches up exactly. She's got that educated in the early 2000's handwriting. You know, large bubbly letters is how I can explain it.
Thank you for covering. I wish it wasn’t needed. Poor Madeline 😔 And I wish all predators could be stopped. Because there are many more just like him 😣
@texasrefugee7888 bingo! Predators choose their victims carefully. They don’t go after children with strong, competent parents. They go after children with parents like Jen Soto
I believe that poem is his confession! “As I held you in my arms, My heart died with you, Rest in peace sweetheart, I will always miss you.” She was strangled so he had her in his arms as she died and this was his way of confessing without confessing.
Notice how the mother is perfectly fine & never cries or sounds sad the entire time her daughter is missing & the second the detectives say they think she knew about the abuse she starts crying…..wow!
You know, I was divorced for a few years when my boys were young. Never, not once, did they know I ever dated. They only met my fiancé after he proposed. You have to be so careful letting other adults near your children.
Look I agree, and as a parent I didn't introduce but two people I ever dated to my daughter, but on the other hand, you could date and fall in love with someone and then after it's all said and done, they could hate each other. Then you wasted your and their time. I'm not saying introduce someone to them every time, but if it gets serious, there are ways to introduce them in public and see how they get along over time. Not spending the night in your home with them, or where you could have a possibility of them being alone together, but there has to be a period of time where they also grow close enough that getting married isn't a shock to them, because I've met plenty of women, and men, that had a bad experience because they trusted someone, and they hurt their children.... even after years of knowing them and thinking they would never do that. There's a middle ground here so that time isn't wasted on everyone for no reason.
I struggled financially as a single parent of a daughter. Never ever did I have a boyfriend living with me, sleeping over, and wouldn't meet my child until months into a relationship (which were close to non-existent).
So, you agreed to marry a man who you'd never seen interacting with your children, didn't know if he was good with them, if they'd like him......nothing. That's not careful enough
🌸 the poem that he wrote to Maddie.. was only recently found in his jail cell inside of a book.. that tells me the one line that is in the poem that says " as I held you in my arms my heart died with you" in my opinion is a confession in itself.
I think that she knew it too!! I bet they did a pregnancy test and I bet it was positive. The mother said she tracked her daughter’s cycle religiously! She offered up her daughter to get him off her back but keep getting pills.
I agee sadly. It's beyond heartbreaking and absolutely disgusting, disgraceful, and plain WRONG. EVIL. That is what that supposed "mother" and all involved are. EVIL. May heart aches for everything Madeline went through. I take small comfort in knowing she is at peace now.
The fact that Jenn Soto hasn't been arrested yet is beyond disgusting. Maddy was AWAKE in some of the earlier photos/videos and you can't tell me that she didn't confide in anyone. She seemed such a smart cookie and made it known she didn't want to be around Stephan.
She hasn't been arrested because she's been hiding in a psychiatric hospital on the advice of her lawyer - probably so she can use the insanity defense when she is finally charged.
It's crazy she told police sometimes she would wake up and he was snuggling with her a kid!! And she didn't do anything bout it. Poor girl deserves better
You know whats sad, far too often it happens just like this. I've been through it a couple times; told my mom some guy creeped me out and i heard everything from "You're a liar, he doesn't want you like that" to her believing me and still doing nothing about it. People are sick I've always been a.girls girl and i don't understand how some "women' are ok with watching/allowing things like this to happen. I mean even from someone you have birth to 😢
Broken families, predatory pedos, irrrsponsible public school personnel, indifferent "parents" ... the decline of society has the greatest impact on its most vulnerable members, children. Stomach turning, sad, but also commonplace.
This shit been going on since forever. It was just kept secret in the families. That whole "what goes on in our home stays in our home" kind of bullshit. We hear about it more because of technology allowing us to get news from all over the country.
The mother is complicit ! They have enough evidence to sentence him to death. She’s his support. I thought it was strange she wasn’t at her 13th birthday. She’s officially a teenager. Put the mom in jail. Thanks Mike~ this is heartbreaking 💔
Sadly, as a landlord, I regularly see families who can't afford more than a one bedroom for a single parent with 2 or 3 kids, so makeshift rooms are really not uncommon or weird. It's that or homelessness, sometimes. When I was young, my mom was on her own and it was my sister, mom and I in a 2 bedroom and my mom slept on the sofa so my sister and I could have our own rooms. She was also working 2 jobs to pay rent, and we often had to get food from the church because it was so tight. I am so thankful that I am in a position to make sure she is well taken care of now that she's retired, and I am in that position because I saw her struggling and the sacrifices she made and it motivated me from a young age to want nothing more in life than to help her.
⚖️ Justice For Maddie ⚖️ Stephan AND Jennifer should BOTH have to pay the consequences for their actions... Jennifer should NOT get away with child endangerment 😡
Same. my mom was in her 40s dating a 22-yr-old man who worked at Wendy's. Okay, fine, who cares? When my sisters went to her about his shenanigans (including my baby sister who was maybe 10 at the time) her response to one was - he was probably drunk and to the other - I just got home, please don't harass me about this nonsense. Disgusting.
@tdoran .. OMG.. Un Fu€king real.. I hate the fact that you and your siblings had to go through such atrocities at the hands of that coward. If you haven't, you aughta consider going to police about your disheartening experience. Pedophilic acts don't have a statue of limitations. Meaning it doesn't matter how long ago said crime took place, he/she would still get in the same amount of trouble as he/she would've been in if caught red handed
Thank you for covering it now that there’s more information. I’m a mother and there is absolutely no way I would ever let a man sleep in the same bed as my child over the age of three, and only if it was the child’s actual father, not my boyfriend. To know that she forced her daughter to spend nights with him after puberty is beyond disgusting! She was pimping her daughter out to her boyfriend, and you can’t tell me different.
I like the listen to the language people use when they think they're being believed. So the mother saying "she didn't make it" got my ears up. Not that the girl didn't turn up, or she didn't go in, no 'she didn't make it' Which is what is usually said of someone fighting for their life.
Yes, that sounded awkward to me as well, as if she chose that phrase because she had half her brain thinking about what to say while also thinking about what happened.
Hmm I guess I need to change my vocabulary because I use words like that and would never think twice about it. I think the moms body language tells more than her choice of words
Based on the context I didn't see it that way. She's specifically talking about her walking into the building and saying "she didn't make it (inside the building)" In my opinion that's looking too much into it. Since that is the exact wording most people, including myself, would use when talking about someone going towards a specific location. If the person was never seen at that location then it would seem they did not make it to that location.
Mike, please never stop your style. It's so different to alot of true crimes, you take it seriously as it is very much so. But the way you are, compassion and empathy, with a little humour of your own. Thank you for always being, well, you. ☺️💙
I love your channel, been watching a few years and have seen all the videos! My husband hates watching true crime because he is a detective (sheriffs deputy sergeant) and he deals with this stuff all day every day 😅 HOWEVER YOUR CHANNEL is the only one he actually LIKES!
Thanks for not saying "I hope you enjoyed this video." at the end like so many other youtubers do after such a horrific topic. I sincerely hope this man gets man handled every single day in prison and is used as the entire prisons community prison wallet..
To act as teary and grief stricken as Stefan did, the first day Maddie was unaccounted for, is extremely strange. Edit: Now that I know what happened, the mother’s behavior is equally strange. Upon seeing Stefan driving around with her daughter’s dead body, “He’s playing me! What else has he been lying about?” Really? What else matters, at that point?
Having a 13-year-old girl sleeping in the same bed with you. It’s just weird and the 13-year-old not having her own room and privacy is just not right that girl had no business being in bed with her stepdad huge red flags everywhere.😮😮😮
I'm from a ghetto poor family so when me and my brother went to visitation with my mom we all had to sleep on the queen sized bed in the living room (I was 13, brother 9). My half-sister (16) had a twin bed in the bedroom. My mom's bf never joined in though, she'd go down to his place on the other side of the apartment building. And he was someone I'd known since I was 3.
Mike... I can only imagine what it must've been like putting the research together for this one, I hope you have a good way of deloading this stuff man. Stephan Sterns deserve the worst of the worst, I sincerely hope he gets it. Thank you for all your hard work man, take care! Love ya!
When you described Madeline as 'shy and withdrawn' . . . As a one-time shy and withdrawn kid myself I know there are always reasons a kid is shy and withdrawn.
Not necessarily, some kids are just introverted. Kids who have problems at home like myself were introverted around parents'and teachers but insanely psychopathically extroverted when no adults were around.
Hey Mike! Hope you can cover the case of Isaac Pence soon and I just recently learned about it but you always do things a bit differently with your video's and I'm sure you'll get around to it eventually. Keep up the good work and I love watching the content every week! 💯
this case is so horrible! i hope justice comes for maddy by charging jenn as well. also there is no question she knew! if u watch that whole interview she says "SHE DIDNT WANT THE WHOLE MADDY SLEEPING IN THE SAME BED WITH STEPHEN TO TURN INTO SOME WOODY ALLEN thing!" even the officers were flabbergaSTED she even brought it up like she already knew!
I thought I had followed this case very closely but Mike has a skillful of wrapping up the huge amounts of information in a concise way. I heard a few facts here that I had never heard before. Well done as always, mate.
I believe she knew about everything he did. Maddie was her bait to keep Stephan around. She allowed him to SA her, but she didn’t say he could k1ll her.
Ive been following this case, and even though the mom isn't being charged for anything it still makes me sick that she seemed more concerned for her boyfriend than her child
This could be my poor niece. My sisters live in boyfriend molested my niece since she was 12. She actually went to her mom, my sister, to tell her. My sister told her there wasn’t anything she could do, if you don’t like it tell him. My niece died of a drug overdose at 49. Perpetrator died in his 30’s from kidney cancer….but my sister is alive and well.
I usually watch you when I’m eating after work. I’ll come back to this when I’m done eating, I simply can’t look at him and that confused hamster Jen and consume food also. I’ll get sick. LOCK UP JEN!!!!!!!! She KNEW.
Right?! Me too, I dunno why this case in particular made me feel so physically sick... But it's just so dark, and Jen is dangerous and a lot more involved than she let's on!
@@Chelle8847I fully agree. It’s very very dark and evil. He didn’t just scrape the bottom of the barrel with his behavior, he tunneled through the barrel and into hell. I pray he gets his in prison. Surely one inmate with nothing to lose will come across him. And that “mother” needs to be UNDER the prison. She delivered her daughter to him. This is beyond naivety, this is a wicked woman with no maternal instinct.
Another mother allowing her boyfriend to abuse her child in horrific ways, knew about it and didn’t do anything, it’s genuinely painful hearing stories like these. I pray Maddie gets true justice, RIP Maddie, this world wasn’t kind to you ❤️🙏🕊
Thank you for doing a good summary on this case. I've tried to follow it but there's so much information out there that I don't have hours and hours to break it down.
Thank you for covering this Mike. What gets me is that she had a sort of bedroom and her mom was like: "Nah go sleep w/my boyfriend." And then those disgusting pics and the mom going: "Well.....That's not too bad." Then when they mention her (the mom's b-day) the mom bursts into tears? What kind of sickos are they? The mother should be held responsible. I hope she is.
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it's pronounced "Ki-SIMM-eee" short "Ki" stress on the "SI. But it's Florida - people here don't say it right either...
You got a lot of facts wrong my man. No shade, just stating facts.
This case really bothers me, that mother needs to hold accountability for what happened to madeline. Thanks for covering this
This case really bothers me, that mother needs to hold accountability for what happened to madeline. Thanks for covering this
You so right, her TV interviews were saw here alone
Most definitely. In the very beginning of this video I thought that she definitely knew something. Or was partly responsible for!?!
Liberals wanted to let her off with a warning
@@smartyjonez5470 and conservatives voted a convicted felon in as president. Weird how the party that insists they are tough on crime look the other way when it's their dear leader, eh?
There's a special place in hell for mothers who serve their kids up on a platter to these monsters
According to a certain religious cult it’s the third level of heaven mom will reside
I believe both are going to HELLL
@@AlexAndra-iy5zu Man, which cult? I know a poet made a poem about levels of hell before.
There's a special place in hell for these monsters .
@@mausercawley LDS
@@mausercawley Mormons. Their attitude towards women and children is kind of awful.
If my kid was missing, I’d be hysterical. This mom was acting like she couldn’t care less. What a sick, sick woman. Poor Maddie.
Yep I just said the same thing i didn't need any more than that to know she was part of this. To he so calm when your child is missing is not normal. My son walked off one time at a fair when he was young I was beside myself looking for him.
@@Bbedkexbe2fu69. Likewise My son was 10 - he went around my mom’s block and just vanished. I ran, calling to neighbours if they’d seen him. Screaming, crying. First thing I did was call police. My cousin picked me up so we could drive around in the car looking. This was during the original Amber case, and I was hysterical. We now have Amber alerts. Thank goodness he was found safe and sound. Hiding out behind trees in the park. I’ve never ever been so scared in my life, and didn’t calm down completely even after he was found. MADDIE’S MOM IS NOT A NORMAL NATURAL MOTHER BY ANY MEANS! Put her away in prison to rot with her boyfriend!
@@Bbedkexbe2fu69❤
I just started the video, so this is a general comment on reactions. Some people don't react like people expect. Personally, I can disassociate like nobody's business. No emotion at all. Neurodivergent people can generally have a flat affect. So just because someone isn't hysterical doesn't mean they don't care, they just might have something else going on mentally.
This is one reason I hope to never wind up in front of a jury. My reactions are not "normal" and I smile when I'm uncomfortable.
@rosesanderson4625 I understand this point fully both my children are on the spectrum and they might not act like an atypical person her actions were just off key I dont know but do we know she's nurodivergent?
I think we all agree the mother should have faced charges too. Who tells their boyfriend and daughter to go sleep in the same bed. That’s disgusting.
Exactly! What the actual hell
She may yet face charges. I don't think she's off the hook.
@alekhidell3644
She should be in jail awaiting charges. What did the tenants say about any observations of the living/sleeping conditions in the home? Surely there were somethings that made them suspicious. Where was the little girl's body found, and by whom? What were the medical examiners findings? Was she, in fact, pregnant pregnant. Were there any overt signs of abuse, old broken bones, recent bruising? This case is mindboggling? Why did the mother even want him around? She obviously did not have any relationship with him? Why did she let him stay there? What was the benefit for her?
@@loditx7706 I don't disagree with you, and your questions are good ones. I was only countering the OP, who said she "should have faced charges" as if that's no longer possible.
Unfortunately they gave her immunity before they knew all the facts, so they can't legally charge her for having a part in this case
If she doesn’t end up in jail, Madeline hasn’t received her full justice she deserves, her mother failed to protect her and gave her daughter to a monster
I'm in total agreement with you 😢
As far as i know she received full immunity from prosecution,so she probably won’t ever end up in jail . SICK!
@@rodiaszymczak6367wtf.. They need throw that out the moment she lied. Fucking nasty bitch. Bet the pos bf got her pregnant and mother got mad.
@@rodiaszymczak6367no I’m pretty sure the immunity was only for that specific interview. She had to be completely honest, it didn’t matter what she had said prior to it. It’s not immunity forever. If there’s actually any evidence that she was aware, they will arrest her. The detectives told stern’s parents that they found absolutely nothing to prove Jenn was aware or involved.
I agree but if he blames Jennifer and has proof the police will have to arrest and question her to see if they have a case they have to check it out I think he will try to blame her @@saraha5847
That "mother" is involved in the case up to her eyeballs. She knew everything, she deserves to be charged along side her pathetic excuse of a boyfriend. Both of the people are absolute monsters and don't deserve to breathe the same air as us normal people.
Sickens me when it’s so clear the mother is protecting the disgusting predator over their own CHILD
Her child, not his. I hold her even more responsible, she served her daughter up on a silver platter.
@@stacitowery3475100%
She gave her to him. Disgusting shameless fool.
@@stacitowery3475you shouldn't hold her more responsible than the person who actually harmed her child, but she is an absolute monster who also deserves life in prison
She's protecting herself...my mother did the same. Ultimately it came down to narcissism..the self...not protecting the predator OR the victim. If she could have thrown him in jail while remaining innocent to the law like Jennifer she'd have done the same.
I've been following this case and it is fecking horrific. How Jenn Soto isn't in jail is beyond me. That poor girl.
Me too❤ she needs to be arrested
100%. 100%.
the mother didnt sound right when she opened her mouth
I know it is beyond frustrating! She’s a disgusting human like the monster she chose to let sleep in the same bed as her child!
She should be sitting in prison right now cause she virtually sold her child off 😮a young girl with no door or privacy living in a home with adults men is not " normal"😮
As a mother of two girls, I don’t believe for one second that the mother didn’t know. People leave trails when they’re monsters. I’m certain everyone in that house knew. That poor, sweet baby, deserved real love.
A woman in the US was recently charged for "allowing" her 11 year old son to walk alone to school. Can anyone tell me how THAT can be a crime and this woman still walks free?
Yea that arrest is bs. Hope she sues the shit out of them. Us gen xers would have all of our parents being excons if this was the case.
What!!? That's crazy
Are you talking about the woman whose 10 year old son walked to the store getting arrested recently, or is this a different also ridiculous case?
@so-calledpunk323 I figured it was the one you are talking about. I really hope this didn't happen twice.
She's got a nice pay day ahead
No wonder this poor little girl suffered from anxiety😥
There is no world in which my mother would have allowed me to share a bed with an adult man. Disgusting.
Jens no mother
That's because your mother is normal, this woman is not.
Ooo how… not hoe. But very fitting for that mother
This mother said to the police ‘I told Stephen he and maddie better not leave me, like a woody Allen situation. They better never do that to me”. What a horrific thing for her to say..she KNEW what he was doing to her poor little girl 💯😡
The minute she said that I almost kicked my tv 📺 she definitely knew
She knew..and was so worried about him leaving her she offered up her own daughter as a 'perk'....I hope karma catches this bitch!
Dang right and she should 100 💯 % Guilty of Letting that happened. She should be charged in her death
There are many things she said that she are like “wtf did she really say that?!!!” and it’s like why has she not been arrested? “The sex stuff not being evil” ugggh and making Maddie out as if she was dumb
That woman sounds like she was threatened of her own daughter. She's pathetic. I hope she is found accountable. Sad 😢
When you said Madeline had separation anxiety, my heart sank. She wanted her mom to protect her, but her mother put her in this hell. Heartbreaking.
I thought the same, anxiety in combination with adhd is a big red flag for trauma as well. Poor kid most likely had gone through a lot already :(
@@georgkuhn3986 Is that true ? I’ve never heard that and I have ADHD and anxiety + sexual trauma so I’d be interested to read about that
I’m from Kissimmee FL and when I say this case crushed the community is an understatement 💔
I hope Jenn Soto never finds peace again. What a sick couple.
I cannot STAND Jenn Soto
Her comments regarding "the sex stuff was not evil"
Shes so selfish
Sick
Dems want to let them off with a warning
I absolutely agree
You could tell when she acted like she had never seen those pictures before saying she didnt recognize them, INSTEAD of freaking out that her daughter was being abused!! Thats when I was 100% sure she knew.. fkn sick
Seriously, WTF!!
You can physically see how the abuse took a toll on this child 🥺 from her pale skin to the dark circles around her little eyes. Poor baby can now rest peacefully without the daily worry of being hurt again with no one to protect her.
Rest peacefully? Nah… No soul can rest peacefully after going through what she went through. And I hope her mother is haunted by her ghost.
Something about an adding emoji while commenting on the rape of a child feels so fucking disgusting
Panda eyes sign of SA 😢
@@Oblivisci........She is in heaven resting peacefully
There's much bigger things to be disgusted by with this case. Take a deep breath bro, it's not that deep.
She was only having problems at school because he had been abusing her for years. She was ready to tell and he killed her. The mom knows what happened and she’s covering for him
I completely agree. Poor child.
She might have been pregnant and he panicked. the mother is a Demon
This was my exact thought. How sick?
Yup. Spot on. That diary entry confirms it- she was realizing it was wrong and was probably ready to do something about it. God rest her soul😢
Totally agree
The nerve! The nerve on that guy. Standing there, acting worried, knowing what he did.
And the mother?
Sickening!
Worried he was going to get caught! What a pos
@@jenniferdnoseworthy2348fortunately not a v bright pos. He thought he was the most intelligent and deserved to be in charge of everyone regardless of no education, experience, training etc. His intelligence led to him feeling safe about handing over his phone after he factory reset it TWICE. The cops just looked into his Google photos account and found it all.
If she knew what was going on, that is not a mother she's a monster.
Appalling!
@fubarusdYou've noticed the unobvious. I'm so glad we haven't run out of smart people!illigaficus3096
23:00 Maddy literally wrote, "I also have severe trauma responses when I encounter all males that resemble my perpetrator," then crossed out "that resemble my perpetrator," and NO adults stepped in? No teacher ever noticed something was wrong? NOBODY came to help this little girl???
Jennifer wrote that, not Maddie
Damn internet sleuth. Keen eye!! you should be an P.I. 🎉🎉
It's fecking Florida.
why would she be writing that in a list format in what looks like a school note book not a diary, i wonder if she was seeing some kind of school counciler and had hinted she had been abused in some way.
21:09 The description of what they saw in the CCTV footage, of Madeline dead in the passenger seat with her eyes wide open is truly haunting, the stuff of nightmares.
The whole thing is disgusting and disturbing
I don't see her in picture all I see is head rest and side view is drivers side
I've never heard them say her eyes were open anywhere... I always heard them say it was her mouth that was open.
Me too.. just the mouth..
@@rangerman9241 It is so disturbing and so disgusting! Maddie never had a chance, Stephen preyed on her for so many years! He is sick, twisted, disturbed and a COWARD! I hate his slow soft sounding voice. It’s gives me chills every time I hear his voice! Where is Jennifer? She had to have known! I’ve thought and thought about this case and I can’t believe she had no idea? It’s very weird that Jennifer had her own room, Stephen had his own room and poor Maddie had a “makeshift room in the living room” that was never used! Stephen and Jennifer weren’t together at the time, he was living with his parents but yet Jennifer still had Stephen around Maddie ALONE, and on her birthday, make that make sense?
I haven’t heard anything about where she is currently. I know the prosecution will use her as the main witness and source BUT it’s doesn’t mean she doesn’t belong in prison in my opinion! She is a criminal and let this go on and on for years!
I’m also so confused by the roommate situation. Why have they not come forward to discuss anything? Especially now knowing that Stephen was taking pictures of one of them without them knowing! It doesn’t add up it doesn’t make sense! I hope they fry him as well as Maddie’s own mother! The entire “I need to take my sleeping pills and get a good nights rest so take Maddie upstairs and sleep in the same bed as her” is so utterly disgusting to me. She had to know exactly what was going on! I knew immediately that Stephen was involved with Maddie’s disappearance and death right away. The first officers that went to talk to Jennifer he immediately got off the phone, crossed his arms, kept pushing his hat lower and used that fake sad voice! HE is pure evil
I've been following this case. Poor girl never stood a chance with a mother and "father figure" like them. It's Sickening what this poor child endured for years. Rest in peace, Maddie
I just left almost the exact same comment. 👍
I thought it was solved!
@@dianedoncheski2302 Well, we all know it is, but it hasn't happened legally yet. Innocent until proven guilty.
@@dianedoncheski2302it is!
If parents aren't willing to love and protect their children, they shouldn't have them or be able to keep them. Once a child is scarred, it takes them a lifetime to heal, and many never even have a chance of that.
Straight off the bat you can tell mum knows something. Who says "she didn't make it"when she didn't go to school. The normal thing to say is" she didn't go to school today. "
Hi L…for sure🫵
This mother needs to be put in handcuffs for being a horrible horrible mother, it’s sickening to the core to see how she failed to protect her daughter for the benefit of this disgusting guy.
Great coverage again as usual big dog
Unfortunately being a shit parent isn't illegal
Whoever pumped a non spermicide into that slapshod quesadilla should probably question themselves, too. Aye
This is a fairly common phenomenon among certain types of women. Boyfriends don't have to be paedophiles but they are violent, often alcoholic. But they still find a justification for cohabitation.
The mother knew. Nothing she can ever say will convince me otherwise. She should be jailed for life and he should face the full fury of the law. RIP Madeline. I am so sorry this happened to you.
yeah that's because you've had a privileged life and have never been abused and most likely don't know anyone who has.
I think that's great but judging things you don't know about makes you a bit of an asshole.
Especially when you're slandering and wishing horror on another person.
@@Kalleestour probably iust like Jen...hope u don't have kids .....😢
@@Kalleestostop defending her, it's gross. No mother would send her child to sleep in a bed with a grown male- that's sick.
@@Kalleestothere are millions of abuse cases,yet people don't grown up to abuse their own children. Stop with the excuses for this monster.
@@Kalleesto Huh?? That doesn't even make sense. I HAVE been abused I KNOW A LOT of people that have been too. I have no clue what that is supposed to do with what she said. Whether you're abused or not, you should think it's wrong that the mother allowed this to happen. She knew it happened. They lived in small quarters, she let that man sleep with her daughter. She was not upset with her daughter being missing, she wanted a lawyer for him. And for that & because I know what it's like to carry the abuse your whole life, I do wish horror onto her. That little girl went through hell; years of sexual abuse, years of emotional abuse, years of feeling not protected by the one of the people who should protect you, & had her abuser end her life. You think I give a flying fk about either Steven or Jennifer? 😂
Stehpan said to his mother, "i didn't start it." Whatever the F*** that means. Also, Jennifer said in the police interactions that she "knew about the sex stuff" but didn't want to believe he could have done something evil to Maddie. SHE KNEW ABOUT THE "SEX STUFF"!! Why that pathetic excuse for a woman isn't behind bars baffles me.
Hi p…hopefully soon it’s coming
As a mother I am floored and inscenced by her sorry excuse for a parent. The levels of narcissism are shocking.
I feel the same way. If I found out anyone touched one of my kids let alone the sick shit SS did to Maddie, thwould be out for blood. I'd definitely not alert them and tell them to "lawyer up."
She knows something. Nothing will change my mind about that.
Spot on. Evil as
incensed* But I agree entirely
I lived through something similar, my mother's narcissism was insanely off the charts..total sociopathl. She didn't protect us, and god forbid my father killed a boy she never would come forwards. In fact when the neighbor alerted cops to my father touching her son my mother conspired with criminals to trash her house until she moved away..which she eventually did, no choice really..what they did to her home was vile - use your imagination.
“I didn’t start it.” Grown men should not be using this phrase.
Nor women either
A small child has no ability or knowledge TO start it! I near had a conniption when he said that.
@@h.haydon8044fair point. No one over the age of like 11 should be using it 😂
@@h.haydon8044 500+
@@taten-jinmu718same, I’m still connipting over here.
Mom acts like sleeping in the same bed with her bf and daughter is no biggie. She’s an abuser too.
To bring a child to this earth to just let them go through this… and maybe be a part of it… disgusting. Justice for Maddie!! May she rest in peace 🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️💖
Agree 😞 Have you watched the mother’s full interrogation? 😮 She was more concerned for her boyfriend than her missing daughter- Vile!!!
there is no maybe. she was a part of this. maybe not the murder but absolutely the abuse.
@thisxisxmexabby, She ALREADY ADMITTED TO KNOWING THEY WERE HAVING OUTRIGHT SEX!! So SHE NOT ONLY KNEW BUT WAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE SEXUAL TRAFFICKING OF HER OWN CHILD!! GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT and STOP SUGAR COATING IT. CALL and SEE the situation for what it is......CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.
@@ayasreviewsandtoycolection7148 Why are you yelling, chill
@@ayasreviewsandtoycolection7148timestamp please?
Rip Madeline ❤ the world was not kind to you and you deserved so much better.
Thanks Mike
😢 , when it’s so close to , where I take my child to school. This hit our community hard. This man is better of in jail. Cause….
May she rest in peace 🙏❤️💐
@@RaiG48809:08
No one can tell me the mother didn't know. She's sitting there calmly, as they tell her about the assault her daughters has experienced for years 🤐 The fact she's not shaking with pure fury or trying to escape the room to what ever room he is being questioned in, is enough. She knew everything
1500 photos?! That's insane! This case is so sick! May poor Madeline rest in peace. :(
No more like over 30,000 ! Between his phone and computer
@@WickedWest512 exactly. I saw on one channel, the number was 34,000 .
1500 were of Maddie.
That's terrible IF true. The problem with claims like this is we don't know if its legit or not.
Case after case its been determined what law enforcement called "terrible images of abuse" in the end turned out to be nothing but innocent family pics and dirty minded law enforcement making the pictures out as something they never showed.
For example, one woman had some photos of her toddlers, (2 years old) taking a bath playing in bubbles etc., and another running through the sprinkler in back yard, a baby girl about 2 with only shorts on. BOTH totally harmless, normal situations with families with babies. These images were called CP when law enforcement set out against her to get a conviction. And THAT'S the problem.
Cops use every means they can to convict. Including lying!
That said, its going to take a LOT more than them claiming they found (horrible pics). I won't believe a WORD of it, until a jury of 12 unbiased adults SEE THOSE PICS and see for real if its "CP" OR something that could be innocent, being trumped up by law enforcement into something its not, just so they can get a conviction, a feather in their cap, and a pay raise in February if this trial results in a verdict of guilty!
People need to STOP being so naive and SO gullible, and STOP calling people "GUILTY" based solely on allegations from police! STOP! That's NOT how our justice system works! We are ALL INNOCENT until proven guilty by a jury of our peers in a court of law!! We are NOT proven guilty by a police department or by their allegations!!
@@jmflyer55 It was confirmed that the photos were Stephan SA’ing Maddie. It was all CSPM
@@jmflyer55bro it doesn’t matter if it’s 1 or 1000 photos, it’s still disgusting abhorrent behavior. The number is irrelevant to the deplorable acts that took place.
The poise those detectives have during the interrogation AFTER they find the photos is absolutely above and beyond. They HAD to in order to keep that monster calm enough to confess
Can you imagine how much tongue chewing went into that investigation??
It's almost the holidays! Happy Everything Boys and Girls!
It’s heartbreaking that it took Madeline’s death for her to find relief from these two evil and moronic “parents”.
This was a hard chapter Mike, but thanks for covering it. We need to constantly be on guard in regards to the protection of children. See something? SAY SOMETHING!
The way the mother looked at the news station camera to plead for help she just looked so resigned like she already knew… that poor teenage girl had no one to care for her. No wonder she was struggling in school and had anxiety.
I’ve been waiting for you to cover this story 👏🏽 Shrek Soto (Jen) is guilty and needs to be charged asap!
don't do shrek dirty like that come on now 😭
@@KieranNathaniel 😂
shrek soto 🤣 i mean....are you wrong? nah
Don't insult him like that. Shrek would NEVER.
Shrek....LOL
26:22 imagine her reaction if as soon as she finished her speech the detective followed up with; “what do you think should happen to you when you get to prison?”
So sad when a child has no where to go and no one to turn to.
This is such a sad story.
@Littlemissdirtbag But if she was having trouble at school people she might have felt that people could not have helped her. She was groomed from a young age a lot of groomers do make sure that the person being abused is too scared to come forward.
@@Littlemissdirtbagnot true. They don’t always help. Believe me..
your comment is extremely ill informed and juvenile. Please do not take up advocacy.
What always got me was she was never concerned about Madeline . She knew what type of bf she had & had the nerve to act like she was in denial about what he did. This wasn’t the first time he’s done something… it’s just now he took it as far as he wanted to .
For all we know, she could have participated, too. The whole thing is messed up. At the VERY least, she did not protect her daughter.
Oh no! I never noticed that!
And after seeing the pictures he took… any mother would be out of her mind and trying to strangle the guy with her bare hands.
Yeah, she seems very dark and malevolent... Incredibly sus. And a danger, to basically everyone. She needs to be locked up
@@katharina967. 💯. That woman is not a mother. All she did was give birth. Even animal mothers protect their young. Someone should have taken that child from her. She’s not fit to be around children.
Oh poor sweet baby. Used her whole life, just for it to be taken away at the end. Seeing her journal about her trauma and anxiety broke me. Painful case.
I hope to see the day that her mother is arrested. She has to know more!!!!!!!!! My heart aches for Madeline. She didn't deserve the life she had 😢
I don’t see why they don’t have enough to lock her up! I’m willing to bet … she may think she’s got away …. But no the police is always watching .
I heard reports that she got immunity. Like how??!!! You don't need her testimony. She needs to be in jail and hell beside him. she won't be able to be out in public by herself without getting street justice
I heard that too. That is one of the most outrageous things about this case. I understand sometimes people get this kind of deal when they want more information that only a certain person can give,but they already have him caught pretty much red handed .
They don't even need her testimony...35 000 cp pics on Stephan's phone tells it all
It's not perverse. He's telling a horrific true crime story. Just because it's sick doesn't mean it didn't happen.are the new stations in crime and Charles are they perverse to o. Mike didn't do this he tells true crimes that a lot are very horrific and he's telling a story@@roxanneb8844you can't be this ignorant
Maddie’s journal entry at 23:02 is absolutely heartbreaking.
“I also have severe trauma responses when I encounter all males *that resemble my perpetrator.*”
I wonder if Stephan crossed that out. RIP Madeline. You were dealt a terrible hand by the one person who was supposed to protect you.
I hope the prosecution team reads the unredacted paragraph in court in order to help illustrate Maddie’s torment by this sniveling two-faced monster and his close accomplice, her very own mother.
The story is that that is actually Jenns journal.
This is Jenn's journal entry. I know someone who works for the police department, and it is Jenn's journal.
It's Jenn's. I compared the handwriting to other items in photos and it matches up exactly. She's got that educated in the early 2000's handwriting. You know, large bubbly letters is how I can explain it.
@@marygoff3332
Okay, that clears things up. I was kind of thinking the handwriting didn’t quite look like a 13 year-old girl’s
Thank you for covering. I wish it wasn’t needed. Poor Madeline 😔 And I wish all predators could be stopped. Because there are many more just like him 😣
It's not uncommon for child predators to seek out desperate hapless women who will actually offer their child to them to keep them
@texasrefugee7888 bingo! Predators choose their victims carefully. They don’t go after children with strong, competent parents. They go after children with parents like Jen Soto
Exactly. They target the weak.
@@vanessas2363It's the mothers job to protect her children. She is as much to blame as him. Sicko
I can't 'thumbs up' your comment.. it's a hideous reality.. 😢
I believe that poem is his confession!
“As I held you in my arms,
My heart died with you,
Rest in peace sweetheart,
I will always miss you.”
She was strangled so he had her in his arms as she died and this was his way of confessing without confessing.
💯‼️‼️‼️
Notice how the mother is perfectly fine & never cries or sounds sad the entire time her daughter is missing & the second the detectives say they think she knew about the abuse she starts crying…..wow!
You know, I was divorced for a few years when my boys were young. Never, not once, did they know I ever dated. They only met my fiancé after he proposed. You have to be so careful letting other adults near your children.
Look I agree, and as a parent I didn't introduce but two people I ever dated to my daughter, but on the other hand, you could date and fall in love with someone and then after it's all said and done, they could hate each other. Then you wasted your and their time. I'm not saying introduce someone to them every time, but if it gets serious, there are ways to introduce them in public and see how they get along over time. Not spending the night in your home with them, or where you could have a possibility of them being alone together, but there has to be a period of time where they also grow close enough that getting married isn't a shock to them, because I've met plenty of women, and men, that had a bad experience because they trusted someone, and they hurt their children.... even after years of knowing them and thinking they would never do that. There's a middle ground here so that time isn't wasted on everyone for no reason.
I struggled financially as a single parent of a daughter.
Never ever did I have a boyfriend living with me, sleeping over, and wouldn't meet my child until months into a relationship (which were close to non-existent).
So, you agreed to marry a man who you'd never seen interacting with your children, didn't know if he was good with them, if they'd like him......nothing. That's not careful enough
Even though you have children, I'm curious to know if JD Vance's "cat lady" comments bothered you.
This
🌸 the poem that he wrote to Maddie.. was only recently found in his jail cell inside of a book.. that tells me the one line that is in the poem that says " as I held you in my arms my heart died with you" in my opinion is a confession in itself.
It was actually nicely written - for a murdering pedo, that is…
Did you read Maddies note in her notebook. 22:57. She wrote she gets SEVERE TRAUMA RESPONSES when she encounters all males. Right there is a red flag
@@eangelillo idk I think he was totally ripping off that Cutting Crew song from the 80s….
@@CantTellYou you’re right! I just died in your arms tonight. Sicko.
@@aaroncordes2444 I believe that was written by Jenn, part of her application to requalify to continue receiving Social Security Disability benefits.
This is a really sad story! I think I prefer when you cover stories with verdics so you can make definitive statements about terrible people.
The mother knew, there's no way she didn't know. And she wasn't just in denial -- she was an active participant.
I think that she knew it too!! I bet they did a pregnancy test and I bet it was positive. The mother said she tracked her daughter’s cycle religiously! She offered up her daughter to get him off her back but keep getting pills.
I agree! She was part of the grooming. She’s as sick as Stephan.
I agee sadly. It's beyond heartbreaking and absolutely disgusting, disgraceful, and plain WRONG. EVIL. That is what that supposed "mother" and all involved are. EVIL. May heart aches for everything Madeline went through. I take small comfort in knowing she is at peace now.
Mom was jealous of sweet, pretty, thin, young Maddie.
The fact that Jenn Soto hasn't been arrested yet is beyond disgusting. Maddy was AWAKE in some of the earlier photos/videos and you can't tell me that she didn't confide in anyone. She seemed such a smart cookie and made it known she didn't want to be around Stephan.
we don't know if she had confided in anyone. she would've had to feel safe with someone in order to tell them
if her mom didn't feel like a safe person she probably wouldn't have told her mom
She hasn't been arrested because she's been hiding in a psychiatric hospital on the advice of her lawyer - probably so she can use the insanity defense when she is finally charged.
It's crazy she told police sometimes she would wake up and he was snuggling with her a kid!! And she didn't do anything bout it. Poor girl deserves better
You know whats sad, far too often it happens just like this. I've been through it a couple times; told my mom some guy creeped me out and i heard everything from "You're a liar, he doesn't want you like that" to her believing me and still doing nothing about it. People are sick I've always been a.girls girl and i don't understand how some "women' are ok with watching/allowing things like this to happen. I mean even from someone you have birth to 😢
Broken families, predatory pedos, irrrsponsible public school personnel, indifferent "parents" ... the decline of society has the greatest impact on its most vulnerable members, children. Stomach turning, sad, but also commonplace.
This shit been going on since forever. It was just kept secret in the families. That whole "what goes on in our home stays in our home" kind of bullshit. We hear about it more because of technology allowing us to get news from all over the country.
The mother is complicit !
They have enough evidence to sentence him to death.
She’s his support.
I thought it was strange she wasn’t at her 13th birthday.
She’s officially a teenager.
Put the mom in jail.
Thanks Mike~ this is heartbreaking 💔
There are literally no words terrible enough to describe that woman and her resident monster.
Sadly, as a landlord, I regularly see families who can't afford more than a one bedroom for a single parent with 2 or 3 kids, so makeshift rooms are really not uncommon or weird. It's that or homelessness, sometimes. When I was young, my mom was on her own and it was my sister, mom and I in a 2 bedroom and my mom slept on the sofa so my sister and I could have our own rooms. She was also working 2 jobs to pay rent, and we often had to get food from the church because it was so tight. I am so thankful that I am in a position to make sure she is well taken care of now that she's retired, and I am in that position because I saw her struggling and the sacrifices she made and it motivated me from a young age to want nothing more in life than to help her.
⚖️ Justice For Maddie ⚖️
Stephan AND Jennifer should BOTH have to pay the consequences for their actions... Jennifer should NOT get away with child endangerment 😡
Jennifer reminds me of my “mother” and the way she protects her bf sickening behavior. This all makes my PTSD heightened.
Eew jus sick 🤢😷👿
same, bit like my narcissistic mother
I'm so sorry you had to experience that. 😢
Same. my mom was in her 40s dating a 22-yr-old man who worked at Wendy's. Okay, fine, who cares? When my sisters went to her about his shenanigans (including my baby sister who was maybe 10 at the time) her response to one was - he was probably drunk and to the other - I just got home, please don't harass me about this nonsense. Disgusting.
@tdoran .. OMG.. Un Fu€king real.. I hate the fact that you and your siblings had to go through such atrocities at the hands of that coward. If you haven't, you aughta consider going to police about your disheartening experience. Pedophilic acts don't have a statue of limitations. Meaning it doesn't matter how long ago said crime took place, he/she would still get in the same amount of trouble as he/she would've been in if caught red handed
the shade while talking about the factory reset of his phone was just gorgeous
I lost my kid in the shops for 5 minutes and was more upset than these parents. If they were lost for hours I would be beside myself with worry.
This makes me so nauseous and heartbroken for the unprotected child victim 💔
Completely off the topic of this video…. Mike closing with “I love ya” is sometimes the dopamine bump I need. I don’t know why. Keep on keepin on. ❤
Thank you for covering it now that there’s more information. I’m a mother and there is absolutely no way I would ever let a man sleep in the same bed as my child over the age of three, and only if it was the child’s actual father, not my boyfriend. To know that she forced her daughter to spend nights with him after puberty is beyond disgusting! She was pimping her daughter out to her boyfriend, and you can’t tell me different.
I like the listen to the language people use when they think they're being believed.
So the mother saying "she didn't make it" got my ears up.
Not that the girl didn't turn up, or she didn't go in, no 'she didn't make it'
Which is what is usually said of someone fighting for their life.
Yes, that sounded awkward to me as well, as if she chose that phrase because she had half her brain thinking about what to say while also thinking about what happened.
A good channel to watch is "deception detective" he shows you untruthfulness through linguistics instead of body language. I think he's done this case
Hmm I guess I need to change my vocabulary because I use words like that and would never think twice about it. I think the moms body language tells more than her choice of words
Yes, I thought so too when I first heard this. She didn’t make it = she didn’t survive.
Based on the context I didn't see it that way. She's specifically talking about her walking into the building and saying "she didn't make it (inside the building)"
In my opinion that's looking too much into it. Since that is the exact wording most people, including myself, would use when talking about someone going towards a specific location. If the person was never seen at that location then it would seem they did not make it to that location.
This was hard to sit through... I'm so sorry Madeline, you deserved so much better.
Mike, please never stop your style. It's so different to alot of true crimes, you take it seriously as it is very much so. But the way you are, compassion and empathy, with a little humour of your own. Thank you for always being, well, you. ☺️💙
I love your channel, been watching a few years and have seen all the videos! My husband hates watching true crime because he is a detective (sheriffs deputy sergeant) and he deals with this stuff all day every day 😅 HOWEVER YOUR CHANNEL is the only one he actually LIKES!
Thanks for not saying "I hope you enjoyed this video." at the end like so many other youtubers do after such a horrific topic. I sincerely hope this man gets man handled every single day in prison and is used as the entire prisons community prison wallet..
That poor girl....She didn't stand a chance. Hearbreaking. RIP Madeline. Xx
To act as teary and grief stricken as Stefan did, the first day Maddie was unaccounted for, is extremely strange. Edit: Now that I know what happened, the mother’s behavior is equally strange. Upon seeing Stefan driving around with her daughter’s dead body, “He’s playing me! What else has he been lying about?” Really? What else matters, at that point?
Every child deserves a parent. Not every parent deserves a child.
Having a 13-year-old girl sleeping in the same bed with you. It’s just weird and the 13-year-old not having her own room and privacy is just not right that girl had no business being in bed with her stepdad huge red flags everywhere.😮😮😮
I'm from a ghetto poor family so when me and my brother went to visitation with my mom we all had to sleep on the queen sized bed in the living room (I was 13, brother 9). My half-sister (16) had a twin bed in the bedroom. My mom's bf never joined in though, she'd go down to his place on the other side of the apartment building. And he was someone I'd known since I was 3.
Her mom is unnervingly evil. It is...like...I feel like she needs to be studied to allow this to be a thing for so long. It is disgusting and strange.
Mike... I can only imagine what it must've been like putting the research together for this one, I hope you have a good way of deloading this stuff man. Stephan Sterns deserve the worst of the worst, I sincerely hope he gets it. Thank you for all your hard work man, take care! Love ya!
When you described Madeline as 'shy and withdrawn' . . . As a one-time shy and withdrawn kid myself I know there are always reasons a kid is shy and withdrawn.
Yeah. Same. There was a reason.
I was as a kid but had no reason to be...
@@Michael.RJ.Oil_Painting same. Had a loving mother and father, just turned out wrong I guess.
You both as shy and withdrawn had a reason? It’s called being yourself?
Not necessarily, some kids are just introverted. Kids who have problems at home like myself were introverted around parents'and teachers but insanely psychopathically extroverted when no adults were around.
Thank you for covering this!! I’ve been waiting! You’re the best, Mike!
This case really bothers me, that mother needs to hold accountability for what happened to madeline. Thanks for covering this
Hey Mike! Hope you can cover the case of Isaac Pence soon and I just recently learned about it but you always do things a bit differently with your video's and I'm sure you'll get around to it eventually. Keep up the good work and I love watching the content every week! 💯
this case is so horrible! i hope justice comes for maddy by charging jenn as well. also there is no question she knew! if u watch that whole interview she says "SHE DIDNT WANT THE WHOLE MADDY SLEEPING IN THE SAME BED WITH STEPHEN TO TURN INTO SOME WOODY ALLEN thing!" even the officers were flabbergaSTED she even brought it up like she already knew!
I can’t listen to this case. Both Maddy’s parents failed her! She finally has relief from that monster. 🥀🥀🥀
I love you Mike. Thank you for all of your content. You just have a beautiful way about you and I love it…God bless you and all of those you love.
Vintage That Chapter is BACK 🙌🙌
I thought I had followed this case very closely but Mike has a skillful of wrapping up the huge amounts of information in a concise way. I heard a few facts here that I had never heard before. Well done as always, mate.
I believe she knew about everything he did. Maddie was her bait to keep Stephan around. She allowed him to SA her, but she didn’t say he could k1ll her.
Ive been following this case, and even though the mom isn't being charged for anything it still makes me sick that she seemed more concerned for her boyfriend than her child
Please don’t call him the step father. Maddie deserves better. He was a groomer and abuser and killer
We know you meant no disrespect because WE LOVE YA!
reporting this one for slander.
I’ve been following this case closely. I’m so glad you have made a video. RIP Maddie 💜💚💜💚
This could be my poor niece. My sisters live in boyfriend molested my niece since she was 12. She actually went to her mom, my sister, to tell her. My sister told her there wasn’t anything she could do, if you don’t like it tell him.
My niece died of a drug overdose at 49. Perpetrator died in his 30’s from kidney cancer….but my sister is alive and well.
Disgusting. Your sister with pay.
@ I hope so. I haven’t spoken to her since I found out about it.
Jenn and Stephen are both sick.
That mother couldn’t even call 911 herself. I don’t think she was very concerned about her daughter.
I usually watch you when I’m eating after work. I’ll come back to this when I’m done eating, I simply can’t look at him and that confused hamster Jen and consume food also. I’ll get sick. LOCK UP JEN!!!!!!!! She KNEW.
Right?! Me too, I dunno why this case in particular made me feel so physically sick... But it's just so dark, and Jen is dangerous and a lot more involved than she let's on!
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@@Chelle8847I fully agree. It’s very very dark and evil. He didn’t just scrape the bottom of the barrel with his behavior, he tunneled through the barrel and into hell. I pray he gets his in prison. Surely one inmate with nothing to lose will come across him. And that “mother” needs to be UNDER the prison. She delivered her daughter to him. This is beyond naivety, this is a wicked woman with no maternal instinct.
Same I can’t stand him
Facts!! I literally just lost my appetite and had to put my food up!! So heartbreaking is an understatement
Another mother allowing her boyfriend to abuse her child in horrific ways, knew about it and didn’t do anything, it’s genuinely painful hearing stories like these. I pray Maddie gets true justice, RIP Maddie, this world wasn’t kind to you ❤️🙏🕊
Thank you for doing a good summary on this case. I've tried to follow it but there's so much information out there that I don't have hours and hours to break it down.
She didn't stand a chance with that mother
That man is just gross. I just can't imagine that creep touching an innocent little girl, much less anything else.
He needs the curb treatment 🥾 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷
My thoughts too! He’s pretty gross!
Jen Soto s bizzare behavior makes me think she knew more than she is letting on😢 Poor Madie! Failed by all the adults in her life😢
Time to chill out with Mike, Let's give it a goooo!!!
Hope you enjoy the aul video!
I get what you're saying, but "chill" isn't how I feel in this one.
Thank you for covering this Mike. What gets me is that she had a sort of bedroom and her mom was like: "Nah go sleep w/my boyfriend." And then those disgusting pics and the mom going: "Well.....That's not too bad." Then when they mention her (the mom's b-day) the mom bursts into tears? What kind of sickos are they? The mother should be held responsible. I hope she is.
Nice work Mom. How can you live with yourself!?