SANTA CRUZ The 15-year-old boy accused of sexually assaulting and strangling 8-year-old Madyson Maddy Middleton in his familys Santa Cruz apartment after allegedly luring her there with promises of ice cream was charged Wednesday as an adult with special-circumstances murder.
Adrian Jerry Gonzalez is scheduled to appear Thursday in Santa Cruz County Superior Court in the girls killing Sunday. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.
Prosecutors have charged Gonzalez with murder and the special circumstances of lying in wait
Murder in the course of forcible rape, kidnapping and lewd or lascivious acts with a child
Along with separate charges of sexual penetration by a foreign object, two counts of forcible lewd act with a child and forcible rape of a child.
Suspect Adrian Jerry Gonzalez
Someone needs to find out if this POS is an illegal alien I want to know..supposedly according to police sources, he was suicidal so he wanted to kill a child to see “What would happen”