Marc Ray strikes plea deal with Dallas County Attorney’s office

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Marc Ray, facing a first-degree murder charge and 13 other counts in the death of Sabrina Ray, has reached a plea agreement with the Dallas County Attorney's office. May 25, 2017, photo by Bryon Houlgrave of the Des Moines Register

DALLAS COUNTY, Iowa — A plea agreement was struck Thursday between the state of Iowa and Marc Ray of Perry, the adoptive father of Sabrina Ray, the 16-year-old Perry girl who died of severe malnutrition in May 2017.

According to documents filed Thursday in Dallas County District Court, Ray’s defense attorney, Gerald B. Feuerhelm, and the Dallas County Attorney’s office “informed the Court that they have reached a plea agreement.”

Ray is scheduled to appear in court Friday, Dec. 21 at 1 p.m. before Judge Terry Rickers. He faces charges of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, child endangerment causing death, neglect or abandonment of a dependent person and several others in connection with the death of Sabrina Ray.

The trial of Ray and his wife, Misty Bousman Ray, is scheduled to being Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. in the Woodbury County District Court in Sioux City.

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  1. Do to that SOB what he did to that child. Show no remorse, but please make him suffer a lot more till his death. Why should we pay for him to live in prison for the rest of his life? He needs to suffer.

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