Boy Who Killed Girl For Picking at His Manhood Headed to Prison

Virginal teen who agreed to pay for sex admits to strangulation

The virgin Fort Lauderdale teen who paid a girl to have sex with him and then killed her when she made fun of him will be spending the next two decades behind bars.

Jason Hartley, 17, struck a deal with prosecutors Monday that will put him in jail for 20 years, with five years of probation after that.

Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and sporting thin patches of facial hair on his still boyish-looking face, Hartley said little as the sentence was handed down in a Broward Circuit courtroom.

Hartley was 15 when he agreed to pay 14-year-old Neica Marie Gibbs $50 to have sex with him in his family's Fort Lauderdale trailer home on June 28, 2008, according to police.

But after performing the act, Hartley didn't pay up, Gibbs reportedly began to make fun of Hartley for being a virgin, and an altercation ensued.

By the end of the fight, Gibbs was strangled to death, in what Hartley called an accident. Hartley wrapped the body in a tarp and hid it next to a dumpster near the trailer home.

After three weeks and a missing persons report by Gibbs' family, the body was found after the strong odor tipped neighbors off.

Hartley's mother had said the teen had some anger issues.

Hartley had pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder charge at first, claiming that Gibbs had hit her head on a treadmill in the fight. He admitted his guilt Monday.

"The totality of the evidence proves this was not an accident," prosecutor Maria Schenider said, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

Hartley thanked Judge Cynthia Imperato as he was led away in shackles.

Some members of Gibbs' family were in court, where they wore shirts with photos of the slain girl. 

"I'm very glad it's over and I think he should have got more time than 20 years because he destroyed my family," said aunt Regina Gibbs after the hearing. "That was my niece, she was a good kid, great grades, went to school everyday, never bothered anybody, so I'm just really hurt right now but I'm glad it's over.

"His family can still see him, I can never see my niece again, never."

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