FL MADELINE SOTO: Missing from Orlando, FL - 26 Feb 2024 - Age 13 *Found Deceased*

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Madeline Soto missing: Florida mom begs for daughter's safe return home​

A mother in Orange County is begging for help locating her missing daughter.

Madeline ‘Maddie’ Soto was last seen on Monday, one day after she and her family celebrated her 13th birthday. Maddie’s mother, Jenn Soto, said surveillance video shows Maddie hanging out in a church parking lot on February 26 after being dropped off for school, but she never made it inside.

"I’m trying to hope for the best, but I’m scared for her," said Jenn Soto. "I want her to be okay; I want her to be safe… I don’t want her to come back harmed. I just want her back – whatever that means, I just want her back."

Jenn Soto said sheriff’s deputies are using K9s and a piece of Maddie’s clothing to try to track her scent near Town Loop Boulevard.

According to Jenn Soto, Maddie had never run away before. She said the teen had forgotten her cell phone at home that morning, but that was normal.

As of Wednesday morning, a variety of search teams are out searching for Maddie.


MEDIA - MADELINE SOTO: Missing from Orlando, FL - 26 Feb 2024 - Age 13
 
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She was 13 years old.

13.

Think about what you were doing when you were 13 years old. I hope whoever is reading this wasn’t having to be exposed to monsters like this perp. And it’s happening more and more lately. 😡
No kidding!

This one is under my skin big time. In fact all these new recent child ones are. Audrii. Eli. ALL of them. Of course all get to me and all of us but I just CANNOT understand these recent ones and where people's heads are.

Maybe it is unfair but this is so not unheard of these days that HOW can these parents be so clueless? Is that unfair? Maybe it is. In Audrii's though, who would let a man like that be sitting and taking your child to school?? There are far more answers needed there. I can't help but wonder here too. She started out with this "we" stuff of taking her to school, almost like she knew what would be thought if saying "he" took her to school... As if she had an instinct or knew BUT she comforted HIM and so on. I just don't know.

The perps in these cases are the bad ones don't get me wrong but man I just am having trouble thinking nothing was seen, sensed and so on. These male molestors and murderers who masquerade as an adult partner to the parent I don't doubt are secretive and cons and chameleons for lack of better words but I still don't get it. And people need to stop thinking being a good person or Christian means putting them in your place in a camper, not judging and letting them take care of your child because he is just a poor soul that needs a little help in life. As in Audrii's and I am giving the nicest possibility with that one because I don't buy that dad at least didn't know more about that guy.

Maybe I need to quit even looking at a new one. Head in sand and ignoring though if all did solves nothing. THESE men, THESE predators need to suffer such consequence and such shame that they are the worst pariah there is. They need to see SUCH consequences given to others that have done such that it actually makes them think twice, KNOWING they are going to suffer severe consequences for their SICK fantasy they act on. But maybe that wouldn't even stop such types.

Audrii's killer SHOULD have been a registered SO. That alone LIES with the judge, the deal makers in that county and the system. That man though had so many warning signs whether dad or grandparents knew or not of all his crimes and so on.

Going to be one heck of a day/week I think. I woke up at 3 with this case on my mind. Watched a few vids on it. Just like in Audrii's, there's a lot of questions here imo. The perps are in jail thank God but that isn't the end of it nor all the answers that need to come.

I was so naive at 13 it wasn't even funny. Thank GOD I never had a monster in my life or midst. I dont' care if kids are "older" now or think they are earlier. The adolescence, hormones and confusion is the same imo. Kids may even think they are adult but they are still NOT. If anything it is worse in that they feel they have to be adult acting sooner when they are still a child. It amkes perfect sense to me this is an age a predator can sense their vulnerability. And younger of course all the way down to very young. Easy pickings as sick as that is, is what they are to these creeps.

It may not be a topic for those that just won't talk the hard stuff but IF he was doing things to her for a long time or making her for that matter, why now kill her? I keep coming back to she was pregnant OR threatened to tell. If I can't say that, then what is the point in talking cases. We have seen that many a time and that's when there is the danger, the molestor CANNOT have eitehr thing as it will get him arrested and his whole thing is ruined. On the other hand i wonder if this was a first or a thing with her just turning 13 BUT it doesn't seem so. The man had sh*t on his phone that he wiped or THOUGHT he did with a factory reset. Thank God not the case they found it.

Can someone clear up for me if LE lied on seeing her on video? From what I've watched supposedly an aunt was told that or some such, some relative, and LE when asked said the video was very poor quality, grainy and could not be confirmed it was her and so on.. It would seem to me (and I didn't see this case at the outset or see all immediately) this was early stuff and came from family or something said to a family member. If someone in LE said it, then perhaps they wanted to see what mom or bf did with it and if they ran with it or some such. I don't know. Mom's whole "we" took her to school doesn't sit well with me. And I just watched it again this morning. It wasn't just one sentence. She continued with it UNTIL she said he did.

I can't help it, mom bothers me too. I think she at least had already been there in her thoughts of he took her to school and she was missing....

Anyhow, I really don't have a point. Just trying to understand and wrap my head around such things where a head can't wrap around or understand perps like this and so on.

Supposedly Audrii's grandpa and dad are going to talk next week. Hmm. That should be interesting and let's take some time, make sure it is edited and looks right. That case too has a whole lot of things that need answers for all as well.

And the three year old sent off for torture and punishment by his mom to a man? Just too much to think of it is so awful. All of these are. There's another one too, Darnell i think?

Maybe monsters will do things but one thing that can be done is HARSH punishment, NO RELEASE and pansy arsed b.s. YET there will be and most will be years before trial and yelling about they aren't getting lobster and all become about the perp, the defendant and the defense.

Anyhow I'd better stop, the edge of daylight is coming and work week starting and I need to get off these thoughts and turn a light on and make coffee and I don't want to.

I wouldn't say there was a break in child cases, there is I am sure always one somewhere we may not hear of, but not too much for a bit and them BAM, all these awful ones. I think it just is a reminder and a shock even though we know, that it doesn't end and never will but the punishment sure can and SO can registering a former SO.

Anyhow, no one has to read this Just needed to work through some of this and let it out. Just my weird way of processing I guess or trying to.

We have a DEAD violated 13 year old here, gone forever. Mom's bf apparently thought she was nothing but an object for him to use, do his sick sh*t or meke her do, and dispose of. I saw one news article that referred to him as her stepfather. I WISH they'd stop doing that new sh*t as well, beeng going on a few years now, maybe more. It's also like when they let us think people are bio parents and we come to find out they are adoptive or foster.

She was NOTHING to him and I doubt mom was either. So on that, I'd like to know how good of a relationship he and mom had. I doubt it was a healthy one. He wasn't interested in mom, not his cup of tea. Yeah, I really need to quit before I go further.

RIP Madeline. Dead at the hands of your mom's monster of a bf. Not FAIR.
 
So yet another instance of law enforcement LYING about having video of the missing person after they were already dead.
WHY say she was seen walking on surveillance after she was "dropped off" when that video does not exist, and she was dead hours before that? What purpose does that serve?
Did LE say that?
I only heard that from the mother but I'd wondered how she'd know that unless told by LE.
 
Did LE say that?
I only heard that from the mother but I'd wondered how she'd know that unless told by LE.
I watched a lot on this this morning. Mom said it and it seems it came from a relative who was at the church and was told (I think an aunt?). It was unclear to me if LE said it to the relative but it seems so. Then sheriff or investigator was asked about it in a presser and said video was too grainy to tell anything or something on that order. It doesn't seem to me LE came out and lied to the public but then I didn't catch this case right at the beginning but I do think I've now seen most if not all.
 
At the time, I'd crossed my mind as to whether that's what the boyfriend told the mother.
Supposedly a relative did. All in all it doesn't seem to have been some direct statement from LE to the public...?

Listening to him right now. Makes me sick his fakery. More of him than I had previously seen of his interview.

I hate the hard details but to discuss a case and what happened, sickeningly they have to be said to figure out what happened. So she was dead but "seated" in his car so did it happen in the car or did he have to put her in there and get her into that position after he killed her? Man makes me sick to say that or wonder.

I wouldn't think it would be an easy thing to do... I had figured this had all went on at home but maybe it was in the car... If he put her dead into the car, was mom asleep...? Did she just not see that Madeline was perhaps not home when she got home OR thought she was sleeping...

Lots of questions and answers needed here yet and In Audrii's, more.
 
Did LE say that?
I only heard that from the mother but I'd wondered how she'd know that unless told by LE.
Her mother did say she was seen on surveillance in a church parking lot.
Then later, there was no direct quote, but an article mentioned her being seen on surveillance crossing the street, walking in the direction of her school.
So, my bad I guess on it being a direct LE statement. But still, mom and bf aren't out there scouring surveillance videos. So it came from somewhere.

Maddie’s mother, Jenn Soto, said surveillance video shows Maddie hanging out in a church parking lot on February 26 after being dropped off for school,
On Monday morning, Stern drove Maddie to school where she was seen on surveillance video crossing the street, appearing to walk to school from the church Sterns dropped her off from.
 

Stephan Sterns, a suspect in missing Florida teen's death, appears in court​

Stephan Sterns is facing charges of sexual battery and possession of child sexual abuse material.

The Kissimmee Police Department said Saturday more charges could be coming but only after a thorough investigation.

Stephan Sterns had his initial appearance in court Saturday. He never spoke, but his attorney did.

"Your honor at this time I'm going to wave Mr. Stern's appearance. I'm also going to wave the reading of these charges. Mr. Sterns is aware of what he's been arrested for," Sterns' attorney said.

Though Sterns is a prime suspect in Soto's death, the charges he faced Saturday came after Orange County deputies found what they called "disturbing images" on Sterns' phone.

"Sir, you got zero bond," the judge said Saturday.
 
Heard and saw this a couple of days ago I think it was. It's awful. I guess it has not been said that victim was Maddie but I'd assume so. Of note they say these offenses he is charged with happened between 03/22 and 12/23. If it was Maddie, he was definitely assaulting her before he killed her just recently in Feb 2024. Does this also mean the assaults were THROUGHOUT that period or does it maybe just mean child porn or something was.. This is kind of what I figured and so he assaulted her prior most likely but never killed her so why now. As mentioned before, I think the likely answers are she was going to tell or even did tell and/or he got her pregnant. Just seems likely to be one of those two reasons...

I say maybe she did tell only in speculation because it sounded like he picked Maddie up at the home that day, it doesn't sound as if he was there. It's unclear but that is a question people have... Were they fighting had he had to move out? I do NOT know this to be true, simply wondering... If he simply came when time to pick her up, he'd almost have had to kill her right away no? As LE says she was dead when seen in his car... Confused. Maybe he was there but many are saying he was said to have "picked her up".

I don't 'like how her mother refers to him as stepfather to LE. Unless we missed it, I've never heard one hint that they were married and it seems all others even family refer to him as the bf. Only she has said that as far as I know.

IF this was going on since 2022, that's a long time and she'd have been only 11 then. Mom had no hint? I'd like to know when he and mom first got together... WAs it 2022...

She states, I have heard it several times that she reported her missing at 4:45. LE keeps saying it was 8 p.m. This document also says 2000 hours, or 8 p.m. Wonder why the difference...

Her family members say it was not usual for him to take Maddie to school, that the mom did. Isn't that great that on this day that's what occurred. Grrrr. Wonder why and how that came about. Did he angle or offer or did she ask.

It SOUNDS like he dumped the laptop and backpack BEFORE leaving and I just don't get that. Was she already dead or did she see him doing this and know he did it? I think it all makes more sense if he was staying in the home so maybe people have that wrong.

I watched a little Grizzly at break. I don't often watch her as much these days, she's still all right but lost some of my liking for her for a couple of reasons. I don't though have much time and I don't have my same YT channels saved on my phone.

She made the point of what if he sent the message saying she was going to live in the woods when she turned 13? He put her in the woods. And she had just turned 13...

I think it pretty unlikely if it was an earlier text as she'd have seen it on her phone. It also doesn't make sense if it was that day as it was said she left her phone at home, he'd be stupid to use it after that.

So I don't think that makes much sense but it would be creepy if he did.

But as heinous as this was and evil as he is, he wasn't very smart by a long shot. So maybe he would do something that dumb. Dumping her things right in the apartment dumpster was stupid along with other things he did. She was either dead quickly or he was there overnight and did something after mom went to bed and mom hadn't seen her in the morning at all... If she was dead pretty quickly I got back to thinking he needed her gone as he was going to be found out either by her telling or by pregnancy. He may not have even assaulted her that day (sexually I mean) unless he did so while mom was still at work or when she went to bed the night before.

The end of the arrest affidavit has the most blacked out after mentioning patterned underwear, sheet, blanket, or some such, etc. My guess is these were found to be Maddie's and that this was known to be her home most likely and bedding and so forth which helped them identify who was assaulted? Mom maybe confirmed the items...I mean theyd' sure be looking for whatever kid this was if they thought it to be someone else...

One last thing and it is minor and perhaps means little but it seems a bit odd that HER family had a party for Maddie on a day she couldn't be there. Did she work night and day double shifts or every weekend and most family could only do the weekend as most do? Couldn't sha have asked for off if planned ahead of time? It seems a bit unusual is all. I certainly wouldn't be happy if a party was planned for my minor daughter with the whole family and it was I who could not attend on that date. I'd also plan to take it off and if for some reason thee was NO CHOICE at all, I'd sure make sure my daughter was okay with it or MORE likely insist my own family pick a different weekend or some such. She may WELL have spent the actual birthday with Maddie but if I recall, it would have been school day/night.

Has anyone ever had their family throw a fairly significant party/age for their own child and not attend themselves? I sure never have. I just find it a bit odd and maybe there were issues and she didn't talk to them or some such but let Maddie see them... Maybe they weren't okay with the bf. Who knows. Just feel it of note to think on... Her mom worked it was said close to he school. How different things might be had she spent the night there. Of course if he was intent on this, it would have happened another day...

I'm not accusing anyone else like the mom, there sure isn't enough reason but she sure isn't clear in my eyes either. There's a LOT of questions here yet...

I don't think we've heard from her since he was arrested and I'd hope she picks the right lane on that one. And stops the stepfather talk.

One last thing is that LE answered a question about the video in a presser and they said it was poor quality and too grainy to tell anything and I had the impression they never did think it was her or was big.

The mother says in one of her interviews that it was her sister they told at the church about the video and who I believe told her, not LE to mother. It was UNCLEAR to me who "they" were. Whether LE told the sister or church employees or some such did.

And did they know how poor and not proof...? Who knows. Sister could have told mother just to give her some hope and maybe it wasn't thought to be much proof right from the start but again it isn't clear LE was even there when sister heard it. Whatever or whowever or however, it seems pretty clear now it was not Maddie and I'm not sure LE ever thought it was. She said her family was out in force and doing all they could and were very upset, as her also.

It could have even been something they asked the church about, looked at and then informed LE. Hard to say.

This man was arrested in very little time at all. LE was quite busy from the start imo.

I wonder how they found her. Grizzly said them putting out the bit about a flat tire resulted in a tip. I wonder how they knew of the flat tire. And general area he had it.

I'm not vouching for Grizzly or the idea that he picked Maddie up and wasn't staying there. They are things wondered on from things said as far as I can tell. Not sure about the flat tire tip thing either. I only watched a few minutes on a short break.

This case and Audrii's they are just too much. On my mind all day this one. Of course as happens, Audrii's is quieter since she was found and an arrest and then this one took over news. The other recent ones as well. Horrid. None of them are over, far from it, they are just beginning. Some need to still be found even.

Finally, can someone fill me in where this comes from as I've not seen where it came about: Supposedly he falsely claimed to work at Disney and DISNEY even came out and made it clear he does NOT. It turns out I guess though that MOM does. Did he say this, claim it to people or does it come from his Reddit or FB or something? If anyone can fill me on in that one, I'd appreciate it.
 
Wow. Take it for what it is. Hearsay but doesn't mean not likely...

I'm not a big Gray fan, his shows are way too long for me and more, but I don't hate him either but this is short and is all with the friend of the perp's on. Former friend...

 
Wasn't clear above but he way it sounds he did not appear for court again. Came from news but saw the news in a YT. He can get on the news with his lies and fake tears but can't show his face in court. And such is being allowed. SMDH.

Found a YTer this a.m. I haven't seen before yet he must not be new as he has quite few susbscribers. Not the most, but no newbie. May stick with him as he talks as strongly about this case and why went on as it deserves. Suits me. Outrage on her behalf, at him, etc. and knows his stuff with the case. I'll stay with him for the moment and see.
 
Not sure news has it right. It sure sounds like judge is talking directly to him. What is fact is judge started to read charges and defense atty. piped up and interrupted fast, didn't want charges read out loud clearly.

Also want to make a note on her straight from LE that he is on video at apt complex at 7:35 disposing of her items, laptop, backpack... This timeline is hard to figure.

This was BEFORE he took her to school which we know he didn't take her to school and surely not alive per LE... Because at 8:19 they have video of him returning to the complex and she was visible in the vehicle... This is where they said she was already deceased...
 
Okay. Missed it before. It says in the affidavit he PICKED her up for school, implying he was not in the home and simply took her to school so that is where that comes from... He PICKED her up...
 
This would then almost mean he had to have dumped her things, got her in the car, killed her in the car or took her somewhere and did so and drove her back, dead and propped or sitting up in car to the complex by 8:19. 7:35 to 8:19... Then of course what next? Drove at some point and disposed of her 45 minutes away...

Strange. Are LE SURE she is dead in the vehicle at this time? They must be, they have stated as much...
 
Why was he even returning to the complex..... Dumb thing to do, much was... Her seen in car is ample proof dead or alive he never dropped her at the school so why did he do that... Dumb all the way around. EVIL as all he77 but a real dumbarse.
 

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