SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors said Monday that they may include rape and molestation allegations in their murder charge against the woman suspected of killing an 8-year-old northern California girl and putting her body in a suitcase.
Melissa Huckaby, a 28-year-old Sunday-school teacher, was arrested Friday on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering Sandra Cantu.
Formal charges have not yet been filed, but San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Robert Himmelblau said a murder charge against Huckaby could include the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and murder in the course of a kidnapping.
The district attorney’s office has not determined whether it will seek the death penalty, he said.
