A 23-year-old man from Louisiana is expected to remain incarcerated for life after being convicted of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and then abducting her 2-year-old son, whom he later threw from a 30-foot-high bridge, resulting in the toddler’s death. On Tuesday, East Baton Rouge District Judge Louise Hines Myers sentenced Brynnen Murphy to 95 years in prison for the ruthless killings of 24-year-old Kaylen Johnson, her son Kaden Johnson, and her unborn child.

Specifically, Myers sentenced Murphy to 40 years on each of the manslaughter convictions and an additional 15 years on the feticide conviction.

Murphy in April pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and one count of first-degree feticide in the killings.

He had initially been arrested in 2022 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He was then indicted on charges of second-degree murder before reaching a deal with prosecutors in the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office.

According to a report from The Advocate, Johnson’s family members chose not to give victim impact statements during Tuesday’s sentencing hearing. Following the proceedings, Johnson’s aunt, LaKeisha M. Johnson, told the newspaper that the loss of her niece, who was four months pregnant at the time of her death, and young Kaden was still too painful for the family to speak about.

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“We’re not good at all,” she reportedly told the paper. “I couldn’t care less about what happens to him. He didn’t care about what happened to them. If we wouldn’t have been on it like we were on it, that boy would still be free running wild.”

East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore told Baton Rouge CBS affiliate WAFB that Murphy’s plea was effectively a life sentence that also saved the family from having to relive the horrific events during a trial.

“Obviously, autopsies were involved in this, and some of those photographs have to be shown, and then just the description by the pathologist of how the deaths occurred, and how the bodies were disposed of, it would be brutal for a family to go through this,” he told the station. “There’s no other sentence than what he agreed to today, so this is a guaranteed sentence; he’s practically doing life in prison.”

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Murphy confessed to killing Johnson in front of her son and dumping her body in the woods with the boy still in the car. He then threw Kaden from a 30-foot bridge while the toddler was still alive and could be heard crying.

The mother and son had last been seen alive on March 5, 2022, but family members began to fear the worst after they were unable to contact Johnson for nearly a week. The family then reported her and Kaden missing, Baton Rouge NBC affiliate WVLA reported.

Police at approximately 2:40 p.m. on March 11, 2022, performed a wellness check at Johnson’s home on Old Hammond Highway. While there were reportedly no signs of foul play inside the house, police noted that Johnson’s cellphone had been disconnected.

Johnson’s family began to fear the worst when her car was discovered abandoned on a dead-end street with the license plates removed, and an initially uncooperative Murphy reportedly went to ground.

“We found her car without the license plate on it. And from there it raised an eyebrow. One of the guys made contact with him, he refused to give information and disappeared,” a spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department said. “He knew we were actively looking for him. He knew the mom and the 2-year-old were missing. So from there, the family was reaching out. He was out on the streets and he decided to turn himself in.”

When he was arrested, Murphy reportedly confessed to both killings, telling detectives that after Johnson picked him up on March 5, 2022, they got into an argument, the Advocate reported. After Johnson pulled the car over, Murphy shot her in the head two times. The toddler was strapped into a car seat in the back during the shooting. Murphy then reportedly dumped Johnson’s body in a roadside drainage ditch.

With Kaden still in the backseat, Murphy then reportedly drove to a 30-foot elevated bridge on Central Thruway, which is where he tossed the crying toddler over the side. But prosecutors said the fall didn’t seriously injure the child.

“It was determined that Kaden sustained no injuries from being thrown over the bridge,” Assistant District Attorney Jaclyn Christie Chapman said during the plea hearing. “But instead died as a result of starvation and exposure to elements for a sustained period of time.”

Police reportedly said that the mother and son appeared to have been dead for about a week.