April 27, 2022 4:46pm EDT
Lily Peters killing: Judge sets $1M bond for 14-year-old suspect charged as adult in girl's shocking death
Lily Peters' suspected killer, a juvenile, appeared in court Wednesday
By Michael Ruiz | Fox News

Wisconsin 10-year-old Lily Peters was sexually assaulted after her strangling death at the hands of a boy four years her senior earlier this week, prosecutors revealed in a harrowing bond hearing Wednesday afternoon.
The 14-year-old suspect has been charged as an adult, prosecutors told Fox News Digital.
Judge Benjamin Lane agreed to prosecutors' request to set bond at $1 million and ordered the defendant to avoid contact with minors, except his siblings, so long as such contact is supervised.
Prosecutors identified the suspect through his initials and only as a 14-year-old boy and alleged that the eighth-grader admitted to physically assaulting the child before strangling her to death and then sexually assaulting her.
"Protection of [the] community also is necessary in this case given his statements regarding his intentions and his statements regarding that when he did get off the trail, he punched the victim in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, essentially strangled her, hit her with a stick, before strangling her to the point of death -- before he then sexually assaulted her," Chippewa County District Attorney Wade Newell told the judge at the bond hearing.
Attorneys for the teen suspect requested $100,000 cash bond, arguing he is not a flight risk due to him being too young to drive.The suspect was being held in a juvenile detention facility and appeared in court remotely.
Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Newell said the charges against the teen suspect were first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault and first-degree sexual assault with a child under age 13 resulting in great bodily harm.
In Wisconsin, homicide defendants above the age of 10 years old can be tried in adult court, but the DA said it was "premature" to say whether that would be the case in this situation.
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