Rilya Wilson Murder Trial Delayed

The murder trial in the case of missing Florida foster child Rilya Wilson has been delayed indefinitely because of an attorney's illness.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin next week in Miami. Rilya's former caretaker Geralyn Graham faces life in prison if convicted in the little girl's slaying. Graham insists she is innocent.

Prosecutors said Monday the trial date is being postponed because one of Graham's lawyers is ill. The earliest likely new date won't be until January.

Rilya disappeared in late 2000 at age four, but officials whose job is to protect her didn't realize it until months later. Investigators say Graham told fellow jail inmates she smothered the child and disposed of the body near a lake.

Yet no trace of Rilya has ever been found.