Rodney McIntyre, who pled guilty to brutally murdering his 17-year-old daughter Ebony Franklin in July, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Rodney McIntyre, the father of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin — who was sexually assaulted, brutally murdered and discovered inside an alley dumpster on the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW last November — pled guilty to Franklin’s murder today.

Nearly 6 months ago, MPD made the gruesome discovery of the body of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin in a dumpster in the ally of the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW. Now, they have arrested Rodney James McIntyre, Ebony Franklin’s father, for her murder. Ebony was stabbed 17 times.