TRACY, Calif., April 14 (UPI) -- The Sunday school teacher accused of killing a Tracy, Calif., girl may have raped the child whose body was found in a suitcase, police said.
Melissa Huckaby was to be arraigned Tuesday in the death of Sandra Cantu and could face additional charges, including rape, CNN reported.
"When she was booked, she was booked on charges of kidnapping and murder," Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said Monday during CNN's "Larry King Live." "And we're informed by the district attorney that she'll be charged with abduction, murder, rape with a foreign object and lewd and lascivious acts with a child."
Cantu's body was found April 6 in a suitcase in a pond on a dairy farm. The child was last seen alive March 27 in the mobile home park where she and her family lived. Huckaby also lived in the park with her 5-year-old daughter and the two children were friends and playmates, police said.
Police arrested Huckaby, also of Tracy, on Friday after they questioned her.
Before her arrest, Huckaby told a news reporter she owned the suitcase that held Cantu's body but that the piece of luggage had been stolen.
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