An Imperial County judge sentenced Abraham Feinbloom to 13 years to life on torture and manslaughter counts.

Monday's order is the sentence on the counts he admitted in September. KESQ reported the murder charge was dismissed after the judge found he had met the deal's condition that he lead investigators to the remains. KYMA reported probation is not granted. That is not the same claim as parole. KESQ reported defense attorney Melanie Roe expects a parole recommendation when he is eligible, and District Attorney George Marquez said the chances are he will probably die in prison. KESQ reported in September that the agreement waives his appeal.

KESQ reported Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, that Abraham Feinbloom was sentenced in El Centro to 13 years to life in state prison on the plea he signed Sept. 28. The station reported the judge imposed seven years to life for torture and a consecutive six years for voluntary manslaughter, the terms in that deal. It reported he is 51, that he gets credit for 294 days already served, and that he must pay a $10,000 restitution fine. It reported the judge found he had met the conditions, which required him to lead investigators to the remains, and that the murder charge was dismissed at sentencing. KYMA reported he is 52, that he pleaded no contest last month to manslaughter and torture, that the sentence is 13 years to life, that he was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution, and that probation is not granted. KYMA's story did not print the 294 days, and it did not print a murder dismissal. The age is 51 in Monday's KESQ story and 52 in Monday's KYMA story.

KESQ reported the teenager's mother, Charro Tovar, spoke for close to half an hour. It reported she told the court about going to Feinbloom's boarded-up house and not being able to get inside, and about having to recognize a photograph of a leg. It reported she said, "Thirteen years is not enough to me," and that she asked for the maximum the law allows. It reported she told him, "You chose my daughter, and because you chose my daughter, you got me too," and, "I'm the mother who wouldn't stop, and I'm still not going away." KESQ reported the teenager's father, Josh Carter, told the court it was "a blessing" the outcome was what it was, and that the man who killed their daughter "was caught." It reported Feinbloom did not apologize when the judge asked if he had anything to say, that both parents said he never looked at them, and that Carter said outside the courthouse, "Cowards don't look people in the face." KESQ reported a sister also stood in the courtroom. The sister is not named here. KYMA reported family members made statements and did not print the names.

KESQ reported the judge said he had never seen a case "so exhaustively investigated and prepared for trial," and that the harshness of the conduct was indescribable. It reported Marquez said outside court that the torture count was how prosecutors got to a life term. "The torture charge gives us the seven to life, and the manslaughter gives us the six years," he said. He said prosecutors never learned exactly how the teenager was killed, which would have made first-degree murder "problematic" to prove, and he put the maximum exposure at trial at "15 or 16 years." KESQ reported he said Feinbloom did not have to explain how she died, only lead investigators to the remains, and, "He's 51 years old. The chances are he's probably going to die in prison." Roe called that "absolutely inconsistent with the law." KESQ reported she said parole in California is "the rule, not the exception," and that she expects the board to recommend his release when he is eligible. It reported she called it "a no-body case from the beginning." Marquez's line about dying in prison, and Roe's line about a parole recommendation, are what each of them told KESQ. KYMA's line is that probation is not granted.

KESQ reported Tovar said she was told Monday that the majority of her daughter's remains have been recovered, but not all. That is what KESQ reported she said she was told. It is not, in that story, a laboratory notice. KESQ reported in September that the signed agreement states he engaged in torture causing great bodily injury and, separately, in voluntary manslaughter, that a no-contest plea to a felony in California is treated as a guilty plea, and that the agreement waives his appeal and caps credit at 15 percent. Monday's credit of 294 days is what KESQ reported the judge gave. The September cap is what KESQ reported was in the agreement. The murder count, open until the hearing, is the count KESQ reported the judge dismissed. The plea is the conviction on torture and voluntary manslaughter. The 13 years to life is the sentence. KESQ's September report is that the agreement waives his appeal.