Girl will stay in adult detention

A judge has ruled that an eighth-grade girl accused of conspiring with her soldier boyfriend by text message to have her mother killed will remain in adult jail while awaiting trial.

Lehigh County Judge Maria Dantos on Friday denied a defense petition to return the 14-year-old to the juvenile facility where she was initially sent after the body of 54-year-old Cheryl Silvonek was discovered last month. The girl’s boyfriend, Caleb Barnes, 20, is charged with homicide.

Cheryl Silvonek’s body was found with stab wounds in a shallow grave about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia.