COLORADO- A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested and charged in the death of her 5-year-old son, police say.
Nickolle Aquilar, 25, and Daniel Garcia, 26, have both been charged with child abuse resulting in death after her son, Domenic Aguilar-Acevedo, was found dead in a campsite on Aug. 25, according to local news outlets.
Police say the boy’s body had been buried at the campsite for almost a month.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by CBS 4, Aguilar told her mother that Garcia had hit her son so hard, he slammed into a wall at hotel they were staying at in Texas on July 25.
The boy began vomiting a dark substance and died, Aguilar said told her mother.
Garcia then took the boy’s body out of the hotel, which was caught on surveillance footage and the couple left to Colorado.
Aguilar told police that she witnessed Garcia abusing her son, but she didn’t intervene because she was “too eager to be in a relationship”, according to the affidavit.
The pair says they didn’t call police about the boy’s death in fear that the other children would be taken away…
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