RANDOLPH, Vt. (AP) - Officials may shed more light today on their investigation of the death of a 12-year-old Vermont girl.
     
Police found Brooke Bennett's body yesterday in a shallow grave about a mile from her uncle's house in Randolph, Vermont. The discovery ended a week long search for the child, who had been the subject of the state's first Amber Alert.
     
State police say Michael Jacques, the girl's uncle and a convicted sex offender, will face federal kidnapping charges in the case.
     
Jacques was already in custody on charges of aggravated sexual assault involving a different underage girl.
     
In a court affidavit, the FBI says an unnamed 14-year-old girl told investigators that Jacques tricked Bennett into thinking she was going to a party and took her to his home to be initiated into a sex ring.
     
Authorities have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon at the federal prosecutor's office in Burlington, Vermont.
     
Shocked and grieving residents of Randolph held a candlelight vigil for the child last night.