On Friday, Kentucky State Police arrested Timothy Madden, 38, and charged him with sodomy, kidnapping, rape and the murder of 7-year-old Gabrielle Doolin of Scottsville, Ken. The town is nestled along the border with Tennessee, a quiet family town of 5,000.

Six days before she was raped and murdered, Gabrielle went missing from a peewee football game at which she was participating as a cheerleader. About a half an hour later her body was found floating in a nearby creek. Medical examiners said she died from being strangled and drowned.

A long-time resident of Scottsville, who is also a county judge, commented that this is a small town with a small town life where everyone knows everyone else. He said that they read the news and hear of the horrifying things that are happening in the world, but no one in a small town like theirs ever expected horror to make an appearance there.

Madden is scheduled to be arraigned before a judge on Monday. As the state police were bringing him into the station at Bowling Green, a media reporter asked Madden if he had anything to say. Madden replied that he was innocent of what he had been arrested for.

The people of this small town are stunned. One father commented that the real world had finally come to Scottsville. Gabrielle’s father took out his rage with a Facebook posting that read, “This animal should not be walking and breathing.”

The state police said it is an ongoing investigation, when reporters asked for details on Madden and the crime. Madden is being held on $1 million bail. The police did state that DNA tests on Madden matched DNA found on Gabrielle during the autopsy. The football game was being held at the local high school and Gabrielle’s mother reported her missing after the game. The creek she was found in is in some woods located directly near the school.

Gabrielle Doolin’s funeral was held on Thursday.