The boyfriend of a slain 5-calendar year-old New Hampshire boy's mom strategies to plead responsible to manslaughter, in accordance to a court docket doc.

Joseph Stapf, 31, was originally billed with baby endangerment and witness tampering in connection with Elijah Lewis' disappearance. He also plans to plead guilty to 2nd-diploma assault, falsifying physical proof, and witness tampering, in accordance to a plea detect filed Friday in courtroom.

A plea-and-sentencing listening to for Stapf was scheduled for Jan. 4, 2023. The completely negotiated plea carries a sentence of 22 to 45 yrs in prison, in accordance to the document submitted by Stapf's law firm.

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Elijah's mother, Danielle Dauphinais, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder costs.

Lewis was lacking and later observed dead in Abington, Massachusetts, final Oct. An autopsy showed he suffered facial and scalp injuries, acute fentanyl intoxication, malnourishment and stress ulcers.

Joseph Stapf, 31, pictured previously mentioned at the Merrimack Police Division, in Merrimack, N.H., on Sept. 2, 2022, is set to enter a guilty manslaughter plea in the situation of Elijah Lewis' death. (Image/Merrimack Law enforcement Office by means of WHD)

When Lewis was however missing, Stapf and Dauphinais have been arrested in New York that month on expenses of witness tampering and little one endangerment. Days right after their arrest, Elijah's remains were observed. The two Dauphinais and Stapf remain in jail.

Dauphinais was indicted earlier this year on just one count of initially-diploma murder alleging that she purposely triggered her son’s loss of life, one rely of 2nd-diploma murder alleging she acted recklessly in producing his death, and three counts of witness tampering. She pleaded not responsible. Some motions have been filed in her circumstance, and a listening to is scheduled for Oct. 26.

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Dauphinais is accused of killing her son sometime concerning Sept. 27, 2020, and Sept. 24, 2021. She also is accused of telling two people today to lie and say the boy was with them in October and telling a third not to chat to investigators.

Arrest documents have been sealed and legal professionals are under an purchase preserving the information confidential.

"Counsel cannot go over the specifics of the situation in open courtroom with the Court without breaking the Court’s confidentiality purchase," in accordance to a document from 1 of Stapf's lawyers requesting a position convention just before the choose in August.