‘A very disturbing case’: Mom and her 16-year-old ‘boyfriend’ killed her 4-year-old daughter, police say

Christian T. Gonzalez and Destiny F. Rhoades (Vanderburgh County Confinement Center) and Octavia Aquino (Linda Alvarez/WFIE screenshot)

Christian T. Gonzalez and Destiny F. Rhoades (Vanderburgh County Confinement Center) and Octavia Aquino (Linda Alvarez/WFIE screenshot)

A 23-year-old Indiana mother and her 16-year-old “boyfriend” have been arrested and charged with killing the woman’s 4-year-old daughter, in what police have described as a “very disturbing case.”

Destiny F. Rhoades and Christian T. Gonzalez are both facing felony charges in the slaying of young Octavia Aquino, authorities announced.

Rhoades is facing one count of neglect of a dependent resulting in death while Gonzalez is facing one count of murder. Gonzalez, who was originally charged with one count of battery resulting in serious bodily injury, made his initial appearance in juvenile court on Monday before his case was waived to adult court.

According to a news release from the Evansville Police Department, officers at about 9 a.m. on Friday, June 14, responded to an emergency call at a home in the 4500 block of Spring Valley Road in reference to a juvenile female who had stopped breathing. The caller — who was one of three other adult females who lived at the home with Rhoades, Gonzales and Octavia — told the emergency dispatcher that she found her roommate’s child unresponsive and “beyond help.”

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