Subpoenas for two 12 year-old girls and a 27 year-old woman were among those issued earlier this month in order to schedule testimony for a Preliminary Hearing Friday, March 3, in the case of a Colony man who, investigators allege, sexually abused a number of children at his home over the period of more than a decade. Seventy nine year-old Isidro Madrid was arrested August 12th after a 12 year-old girl reported to a Children’s Mercy Hospital Social Worker in July about an incident that occurred at Madrid’s home two days earlier, at a family gathering. The girl later reported a string of assaults on multiple occasions over the past five years, and interviews with other girls who frequented the home resulted in the initial filing of 14 separate child sex charges against Madrid, dating back to 2009. Dates of birth of the children ranged from 1995 to 2011.
A preliminary hearing is an initial review of evidence and testimony in a criminal case, with the objective of determining whether sufficient evidence exists to justify a trial on the charges. Madrid is presently being held in the Anderson County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond. If convicted he could serve a minimum sentence of 40 years to life in prison.
