The teenager accused of raping and killing 10-year-old Iliana ‘Lily’ Peters in Wisconsin is the son of a convicted pedophile, according to a report.
The father of the 14-year-old murder suspect spent three years in prison for possession of child pornography with young girls on his cell phone, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
The billing documents obtained by the news agency state that 10 pornographic images of young girls with their legs open were found on the 37-year-old father’s phone. His face was on some of these photos. Other photos showed girls in high heels, tutu skirts and boa sweatshirts, all focusing on their genitals, according to court documents.
The father is currently living in a half-house after being released from prison in April 2021 under surveillance, according to court documents obtained by the news agency. He is a registered sex offender.
The 14-year-old boy allegedly left the house at the same time as Lily Peters, following her in order to rape and kill her (Image: Facebook)
In a letter sent to a judge from prison, the father asked to have unsupervised visits with his son, whom he called “the best of me”.
Other letters filed to support his efforts to regain unattended contact with his son describe the accused killer as an unhappy child who looked miserable in his mother’s company.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that the 14-year-old, who was not named publicly despite being charged as an adult, was planning to “rape and kill the victim from the outset” after following Lily out of the house where she was staying. together.
The boy, identified only by his CB PB initials, punched Lily in the stomach, hit her on the ground and beat her with a stick before strangling her to death and then raping her, said Chippewa County Attorney Wade Newell.
Stuffed animals were left at a memorial service at the church attended by Lily Peters’s family (Image: AP)
On Wednesday, a judge set the suspect’s bail at $ 1 million. The teenager has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault and first-degree sexual assault on a child under 13 years of age.
Also, the suspect is no longer allowed to be alone with his siblings if visits are requested. Officials said the boy left the same house as Lily, but did not confirm how they knew each other.
His father often wrote to the family and said that he dreamed of a future that would be reunited with his son. He claimed unsupervised contact with the suspected killer, claiming in documents received by the court that “he is not a victim of my insult”.
The proposal was rejected. It is not clear if he has seen his son since his release in April 2021.
Lily Peters was a fourth grader who lived less than a mile from where she was killed (Image: Chippewa Falls Police Department)
Lily, who lived less than a mile from her aunt’s house in Chippewa Falls, was found dead around 9 a.m. Monday, a few blocks from her aunt’s house near a hiking trail and a brewery parking lot. .
The night before, her father had reported her missing when she did not return home from a visit with her family.
Authorities who searched her found what appeared to be her bicycle abandoned along the wooden path and soon discovered that Chippewa County Medical Examiner had confirmed that it was her remains.
Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm told a news conference Tuesday night after the suspect was arrested that there was no danger to the community.
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