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Stephen Sherwood was paroled in 2024 after serving less than half his sentence for beating 4-year-old Hope Barrett to death in a Martinsville motel room in 1995. On New Year's Eve in Mishawaka prosecutors say he held his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint as she held her two-month-old grandson.

Some criminal offenders could have to wait up to five years for a parole hearing under a new law the governor signed Friday.

(Warning: This story contains graphic details of sex assault) ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A judge in southwestern Michigan is expected to decide in November…