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Bond Set At $1M For Teen Accused Of Plotting To Kill Family With Older Boyfriend

PLYMOUTH TWP. (WWJ/AP) -  A judge has set bond at $1 million for a 15-year-old Wayne County girl who prosecutors say stabbed her 12-year-old brother and conspired to kill other family members so she could run away with her 23-year-old boyfriend.

Roksana Sikorski appeared in 35th District Court Thursday where she was charged as an adult with one count of assault with intent to murder and four counts of conspiracy to commit murder in last Friday's attack. Dressed in burgundy jail garb, Sikorski looked down and softly cried throughout the entire proceeding.

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Roksana Sikorski enters the courtroom, followed by a Plymouth Township detective. (Credit: Mike Campbell/WWJ Newsradio 950)

Sikorski's boyfriend, Michael Rivera, faces the same charges as well as felonious assault. He was ordered held on $1 million bond Sunday.

WWJ's Mike Campbell said the girl's parents were in court to support their daughter, but they don't plan on bailing her out. If she does manage to post bond, Sikorski is barred from having any contact with family members and is prohibited from being on her parent's property.

Prosecutors say Sikorski stabbed her brother in the throat multiple times and tried to stab her younger sister at the family's home in Plymouth Township. Prosecutors say Rivera was outside the home, sending text messages and pictures to instruct Sikorski.

The boy's screams alerted family members, who interrupted the 2 a.m. attack as Sikorski and Rivera fled the area. The boy was treated at a hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.

Sikorski's attorney, Leslie Posner, told the judge the girl suffers from RAD or reactive attachment disorder, a rare but serious condition that occurs in children who have been neglected and are unable to form a healthy emotional attachment with their primary caregivers, usually their mother, before age five. Sikorski was 4-years-old when she was adopted from Poland with her sibling, Posner said, adding that she suffered years abuse before coming to America.

"At that time 1990, a lot of people were adopting young children from Poland and now as they become teenagers, it turns out, there is a knowledge about this condition called RAD - it's Reactive Attachment Disorder," Posner told WWJ Newsradio.

"They came from a very, very, very bad background," she said. "They were locked in closets, beaten" by their biological parents. "It's really tragic but they suppress a lot of what happened - post traumatic stress disorder - type thing - and then just the right bad group of events happened. And then something like this can happen."

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Jeffrey and Laurene Sikorski talk to reporters after their daughter was arraigned on charges she plotted with her older boyfriend to murder her brother, sister and parents to they could apparently run away together. (Credit: Mike Campbell/WWJ Newsradio 950)

Sikorski's parents, Jeffrey and Laurene, told reporters their daughter met Rivera on Facebook earlier this year and "fell under his spell."

"He was using her to do his dirty work," Laurene Sikorski said. "I think she just thought that this guy loved her and she wanted to do whatever he told her. She was very vulnerable."

Despite the recent series of events, Laurene Sikorski said she and her husband plan to stand by their daughter.

"She has a mental disorder and she needs help, and I want to make sure she gets help. We are supportive of her," she said.

Posner said Jeffrey and Laurene Sikorski initially did not know the nature of their daughter's relationship with Rivera. When they realized the two were involved in a sexual relationship, Posner said the parents started working with police to charge Rivera with criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

The Sikorskis believe Rivera convinced their daughter to go along with the murder plot so that he wouldn't face prosecution on the sex charges.

Rivera and Sikorski are both due back in court on Oct. 31 for preliminary hearings.

WWJ Newsradio 950 and CBSDetroit.com are publishing the girl's name because she has been charged as an adult.

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