Choi,life sentence at early stage,too bad.A 15-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with murder in the death of 8-year-old Madyson “Maddy” Middleton in Santa Cruz, the district attorney said Wednesday.
Adrian Jerry Gonzalez of Santa Cruz faces one count of murder with the special circumstance that he kidnapped and sexually assaulted Maddy, Santa Cruz County Dist. Atty. Jeffrey Rosell said Wednesday. He is also accused of lying in wait.
He has also been charged with one count of kidnapping and other sexual assault-related offenses, he said. If convicted of the charges, he faces life in prison, Rosell said.
“We have charged this individual as an adult for which the crimes he is responsible for,” he said. “We are going to bring him to justice.”
Adrian is expected to appear in a Santa Cruz courtroom Thursday. He is being housed in a juvenile detention facility.
In deciding whether to charge Adrian as an adult, prosecutors looked at his age, his criminal record, the nature of the crime and how the offense was committed, Rosell said.
Santa Cruz police Chief Kevin Vogel said the boy lured Maddy to his family's apartment, where they were alone, and killed her. The boy then carried Maddy downstairs to a garage and hid her body in a recycling bin, he said.
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