NORRISTOWN, PENN. – Almost a year since she was last seen alive, the case of a murdered Newfoundland woman who had worked in the pornography industry goes before a judge in Pennsylvania Monday.

Natel King, 23, was a student living near Toronto who supported herself by working in the adult entertainment industry.

Her body was found last March in a Pennsylvania ravine. She was last seen alive Feb. 29, 2004.

King, who was taking correspondence courses in psychology, had driven to the U.S. to complete freelance shoots.

Anthony Frederick, a photographer, has confessed to killing King, and is expected to enter a guilty plea Monday.

District Attorney Bruce Castor says the confession contributed to his decision to reduce charges from first-degree to third-degree murder.

“I expect that the judge will sentence him to what is effectively a life term but of course there is always the possibility that he might be paroled when he is in his 80 and a decrepit old man,” Castor says.

King’s Newfoundland family is not commenting on the murder.

Stephan Sirard, who owns a modelling agency in Toronto that serves the sex business, worked with King for almost two years.

“People say she was in the industry, so she deserved what she got,” Sirard says.

“But I don’t care what you do. Nobody deserves to be murdered.”