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FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2016, file photo, a photo of Victoria Martens, a 10-year-old Albuquerque girl who was brutally murdered, is placed in a memorial outside her apartment in Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico prosecutors have dismissed murder and sexual assault charges against the man arrested two years ago in the death of the 10-year-old Albuquerque girl whose dismembered remains were found in her family's apartment, Friday, June 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Prosecutor drops most charges in death of Albuquerque girl

By MARY HUDETZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, from left to right, Nicole Maldonado, Myriah Flores, and her mother Sharlene Benavidez attend a candlelight vigil for 10-year-old Victoria Martens at the apartment complex, in Albuquerque, N.M., where the young girl lived and was killed. Martens was strangled to death on her 10th birthday before she was dismembered and her remains set on fire, according to an autopsy released months after police uncovered the sexual abuse they say she suffered at the hands of her mother and others leading up to her killing. (Jim Thompson /The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Autopsy: New Mexico girl was strangled on 10th birthday

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press