HARRISON, Neb. (AP) – A 32-year-old Nebraska Panhandle man has been given life in prison for murdering his 8-year-old stepdaughter.
Salvador Lopez, of Mitchell, admitted killing Kerra Wilson.
Lopez was sentenced Friday in Sioux County District Court. Sioux County Attorney Adam Edmund says Lopez deserved to die in prison In exchange for Lopez’s guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a provision that could have led to the death penalty.
The little girl’s body was found Sept. 22 on remote ranchland in Sioux County.
Prosecutors say Lopez killed Wilson because she told him she was going to tell her mother that he “had touched her in a bad way.”