Feinbloom pleaded no contest to torture and manslaughter. The murder count is still open until Oct. 26.

A no-contest plea is a conviction on the counts that were admitted. It is not a murder conviction, and it is not yet a sentence. Abraham Feinbloom pleaded no contest in Imperial County Superior Court to torture and voluntary manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old T'Neya Tovar. KESQ reported the agreement, filed Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, calls for 13 years to life: seven years to life on torture and a consecutive six years on voluntary manslaughter. Both counts count as strikes. Sentencing is set for Oct. 26, 2026, in El Centro. The murder charge stays on the case until that hearing.

Imperial County District Attorney George Marquez told KESQ on Wednesday, Sept. 30, that T'Neya's parents wanted to bury their daughter, and that the office shaped the offer around that request. He said torture supplies the life term, seven to life, and manslaughter adds six years, set against what he described as 16 years to life if the murder count went to trial. Marquez said he would not describe how T'Neya died or why the remains were at more than one site. A prosecutor's account of a bargain is not a cause-of-death finding.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, the district attorney's office said investigators recovered remains off Treadwell Boulevard in Salton City that they believe are T'Neya's, after Feinbloom led them there under the agreement. The office told KESQ the recovery included a skull and a ribcage. KESQ and the Imperial Valley Press reported that DNA testing has not confirmed the identity. Under the agreement KESQ reviewed, prosecutors dismiss the murder charge at sentencing only if portions of the torso and head are recovered. A search result is not that dismissal. KESQ also reported that what Feinbloom said on the trip, and what investigators found because of it, cannot be used against him unless he testifies and contradicts himself.

KESQ reported that the signed agreement states Feinbloom engaged in the torture of the victim, causing great bodily injury, and that he separately then engaged in the voluntary manslaughter of the victim. A no-contest plea to a felony in California is treated as a guilty plea. The agreement waives his appeal and caps credit at 15 percent, KESQ reported. T'Neya, of Hemet, was 17 when she went missing Dec. 1 after a friend dropped her at Feinbloom's Harlequin Court home in Salton City. Partial remains had already been recovered in December. Feinbloom was arrested Feb. 13. Jury selection had been set for Oct. 6. KESQ reported that the agreement does not say what happens if the remains condition is not met before sentencing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.