SAN ANTONIO — The trial is underway for the man accused of beating his five-year-old stepson to death, then burying his body in Colorado back in 2021.
Prosecutors say Daniel Garcia killed Domenic Aguilar-Acevedo while they were staying at a San Antonio hotel. Garcia and 25-year-old Nickolle Aguilar, the boy's mother, then allegedly drove to Colorado, where they buried Domenic's body in a remote park west of Denver. Investigators found the body about a month later, assisted by Aguilar, in a deep ravine.
Aguilar told authorities Garcia had been extensively physically abusing the boy. She also admitted to not reporting the boy's death out of fear of losing custody of their other kids.
Garcia is charged with injury to a child resulting in death.
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