White female teacher allegedly murders and rapes Hispanic child..... is it a Hate-crime?

California prosecutors say they are considering rape and molestation allegations against the white woman suspected of killing 8-year-old Latina Sandra Cantu and stuffing her body into a suitcase. The family of Sandra Cantu say they were stunned to learn that neighbor and local Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby, bottom left, had been arrested in the gruesome murder of the Tracy, Calif. second-grader.(ABC) San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Robert Himmelblau told The Associated Press today that a homicide charge against Melissa Huckaby, 28, could also include the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and murder in the course of a kidnapping. http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=7321954&page=1 , see also, http://www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12398