Chipeva Falls, Wisconsin – A district judge on Wednesday set a $ 1 million bail for a 14-year-old suspect in the murder of Iliana “Lily” Peters, a 10-year-old girl who was found dead Monday morning after visiting her aunt’s home. are here.
At a court hearing in which the suspect appeared with his lawyers on video, District Attorney Wade Newell described the juvenile as saying to authorities that his intention was to rape and kill the victim “from the beginning” when he left with her. down the aisle.
He is charged with three serious crimes: first-degree premeditated murder; first-degree sexual assault and first-degree sexual assault on a child under the age of 13 resulting in serious bodily harm. The first two charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and the third carries a sentence of up to 60 years.
Defense attorneys demanded that the bail be set at $ 100,000, but the district attorney demanded $ 1 million, citing the seriousness of the charges and the need to protect the community, as well as the defendant’s ability to try to escape.
Judge Benjamin Lane agreed with the higher amount, saying “it is a serious threat to the community and the court is therefore concerned that it could be an additional threat if the person is no longer in custody.”
Appearing on a large screen in the courtroom, the defendant – an 8th grader and a lifelong resident of Chipeva County who lives with his mother – sat quietly next to his lawyers with his head bowed and wearing a dark shirt.
The lawyers and the judge did not name the suspect, nor did they reveal how he knew the victim.
The second meeting is scheduled for May 5.
Peters’ body was found in the woods at 9:15 a.m. Monday near her aunt’s home in Chippewa Falls, near a sidewalk at the end of Grove Street and the parking lot of the Leinenkugel brewery, police said. He was in about the same area where police said earlier that a bicycle believed to belong to the girl had been found.
The girl lives four blocks from her aunt’s house. Her father told police around 9pm on Sunday that his daughter was missing.
In his argument for a high bail on Wednesday, Newell told the court that the juvenile had made statements to police describing how he “hit the victim in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, strangled her, essentially strangled her with a stick before strangle the point of death before he sexually assaults her. “
Newell said after the hearing that the defendant and the girl left the aunt’s house together.
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