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Melissa Huckaby was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a California courtroom on Monday. Huckably, a former Sunday school teacher admitted to the killing of 8 year old Sandra Cantu. Cantu’s lifeless body was found in a suitcase 10 days after she disappeared in Tracy, California, in March 2009.

San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Linda Lofthus sentenced Huckaby to life in prison. The deal reached with prosecutors removed the possibility of the death penalty. Prosecutors had charged Huckaby with murder, kidnapping, lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, and rape by instrument.

Huckaby gave a tearful apology to the family of Sandra Cantu, as well as apologizing to her own family. While addressing Cantu’s family, Huckaby stated that not an hour goes by where she does not think of the slain 8 year old.

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