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Utah teen who filmed girl’s suicide to be sentenced for child abuse homicide

A 19-year-old man who pleaded guilty to child abuse homicide for buying rope for a teenage girl to hang her self, then filming the act, will be sentenced Friday.

Tyerell Przybycien, 19, faces the possibility of life in prison. He also will be sentenced for one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. Detectives investigating the death of Jchandra Brown found child pornography on Przybycien’s cell phone.

Courtesy photo Jchandra Brown
Courtesy photo Jchandra Brown

May 6, 2017, a turkey hunter found Brown, 16, hanging by a noose near Maple Lake in Spanish Fork Canyon.