14-year-old boy waives hearing for murder of 10-year-old girl

The Associated Press reports that a 14-year-old Wisconsin boy known as C. T. P.-B in court documents is waiving his right to his preliminary hearing in Chippewa County, which would have occurred today.

The suspect’s charges are one count of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of sexual assault, and he is being held on $1 million bond in a juvenile detention center for the murder of 10-year-old Iliana ‘Lily’ Peters. Peters was reported missing on April 24th this year, according to People Magazine, and her body was found in a Wisconsin forest the following day.

Police interviewed C. T. P.-B on April 26th, as he was Peters’ last known contact, and he admitted to traveling on a Chippewa Falls trail with Peters the day she was killed. According to People Magazine, he then allegedly confessed to knocking Peters down, beating her with a stick, and strangling her to death before sexually assaulting her body as he had planned.

While the suspect would have “appear[ed] remotely from the detention center” this afternoon, his attorney officially submitted the suspect’s wish to go without the hearing, which would have prompted a judge to “[determine] if there's enough evidence for a trial.”

As he is over 10 years old and charged with first-degree intentional homicide, he will be considered an adult to Wisconsin’s justice system, affirms the Associated Press.