Mollie Tibbetts murder: Defense says missing 11-year-old boy, sex trafficking ring linked to case
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A judge in Iowa considered new motions Thursday filed by the defense for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican national who was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts.
He was expected to get life without parole, but Judge Joel Yates delayed sentencing Wednesday after the defense came forward with two new witnesses. The defense motions requested a new trial and asked the judge to compel prosecutors to provide more information on other suspects investigated in the death of Mollie Tibbetts allegedly linked to a sex trafficking ring. The defense's first new witness, an inmate at a county jail, told investigators that a fellow inmate, Gavin Jones, confessed to him that he and another man stabbed Tibbetts, and that Bahena Rivera was framed. According to Bahena Rivera’s defense attorney, Jennifer Frese, Jones allegedly admitted he was involved with a "trap house" and Tibbetts was abducted for purposes of sex trafficking.
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