October 24, 2017
Pamela Foster, foreground, and Gary Mike, center background, parents of Ashlynne Mike, prepare to make a statement after their daughter’s killer Tom Begaye was sentenced to life in prison, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 outside of a federal courthouse in downtown Albuquerque, N.M.. Tom Begaye was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole as part of a plea deal in the 2016 rape and murder of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike. Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP