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In the body-worn camera footage, the deputy asks, "What's going on?"
Jenn Soto replied, “So my daughter was dropped off close to school this morning but never made it."
The deputy asked, "What was she last seen wearing?"
Stephan Sterns said, "Green hoodie, white crocs and either blue or black pants. I think black shorts, black shorts? Black shorts? Um, hm.”
Jenn Soto went on to say, "She didn't want to be dropped off at school. She wanted to be dropped a half block away so she could walk."
Stephan Sterns added, “She didn't explain, she's in a phase."
Jenn Soto said, “He dropped off her off couple blocks away and drove away.”
"I thought she was looking for headphones before she kind of walking on, but she was just kind of in that direction, looked the same as any other morning,” Stephan Sterns added.
"No, nobody picked her up. I don't see her getting into anybody's car in the video. I see here sitting on property, give or take, for 10 minutes and then walking off property," the deputy said.
"She has a distinctive beauty mark on her face here. like below the nose, like right in the nose, you'd know if you saw it," he said.
Newly released interviews of Madeline Soto's mother and her boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, show the couple shortly after Madeline was reported missing.
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