A former Marine from Plainfield Township will spend many years in prison after a violent home invasion where he stabbed an 11-year-old girl in a Rockford-area house.
The judge said the attack was like a real-life horror movie and that it was by the grace of God that she wasn’t killed.
What happened
Back in June 2024, around 3 a.m., 25-year-old Ricardo Perez Castillo went into a home on Ella Terrace Court while the family was sleeping.
Once inside he took off his shoes, socks, and pants…