Prosecutors said Przybycien bought the rope and tied the noose Brown put around her neck, and he purchased the compressed air she used to knock herself out before dying. He was originally charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony, after reaching a plea bargain with prosecutors. After turkey hunters found her body hanging from a tree the next day, investigators found several items at her feet, including a receipt with his name for the purchase of a rope, a note referencing the recording on her phone that was left there and a can of air duster, court documents say. He asked the judge to impose jail time and probation instead of prison. Christine Scott, a prosecuting attorney, speaks during Tyerell Przybycien's sentencing in the 4th District Court on Friday, D... She read from statements he allegedly made to family members and friends, saying he likes child pornography, feels attraction for his 12-year-old cousin and rejects his family. (CNN) A Utah teenager who helped a girl hang herself last year was sentenced Friday to between five years and life in prison as part of a plea deal.
– A teenager found guilty of helping his schoolmate hang herself has received his prison sentence: five years to life, CNN reports. Tyerell Przybycien, now 19, bought the rope and compressed air that 16-year-old Jchandra Brown used to take her own life in a Utah campground in May 2017. He also shot video as she inhaled the air, passed out, fell from a wooden pedestal, and hanged herself. "What I did I'm not proud," he said in court, per KSL, "and it doesn't deserve pity." Brown's mother, Sue Bryan, took a big framed photograph of Jchandra into the Provo courtroom. "I don't want him out to cause pain and havoc on anyone else's family, anyone else's children," Bryan told the court. "I cannot describe to you the pain of losing a child." Przybycien, initially charged with murder, pleaded guilty to child abuse homicide in a plea bargain, per the Salt Lake Tribune. But in Bryan's words, "There never will be true justice for Jchandra, because she never will come home." (In related news, a skydiving instructor killed himself during a tandem jump.)