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Miguel Matias pleaded guilty to strangling his 14-year-old daughter and throwing her body into a Bronx building's boiler in 2008. Earlier this year, rape and incest charges were added against him, because DNA evidence showed his daughter was 12 weeks pregnant with his child. With this plea, Matias faces up to 25 years to life in prison; his lawyer said he would have faced up to 50 years to life if the case went to trial, "We had to [plead]. It’s not a triable case."

The Bronx DA's office revealed even more disturbing news about the murder of 14-year-old Anna Matias. The teen, who was killed by her father Miguel Matias, who threw her body into the boiler), was pregnant with her father's child. According to the Daily News, "DNA taken from Matias matches a sample taken from the fetus carried by his daughter," resulting in prosecutors "consolidat[ing] the two indictments against him - an earlier one for his daughter's murder on Feb. 16, 2008, and the newest one for second-degree rape and incest." Matias, who had previously tried to kill himself, Anna and another child by dousing a car with gasoline, had allegedly claimed he was angry at Anna for messaging a boy via the computer and strangled her. He now faces 25 to life for the murder and 7 years for the rape.

After a Bronx building super confessed to killing his 14-year-old daughter over the weekend, some are wondering why he had partial custody of his daughter after other previous violent incidents.

Miguel Matias called 911 yesterday morning to confess to police that he had strangled his daughter. He lied, however, about where he placed her body. The 34-year-old building superintendent told cops that he killed the 14-year-old girl because she wouldn't stop texting or instant messaging a boy, and that he then dumped her body in the woods. When police searched the Bronx building where he worked, however, they found the partially burned body of a girl shoved into the building's basement boiler.