DANIA ROSILES - 2 yo(2011) Convicted: Juan Pablo Rivera-Aguilar - Salt Lake City UT

SALT LAKE CITY — A 2-year-old girl taken to a
local hospital in extremely critical condition after police say she was
abused by her mother's boyfriend, has died.
Officers were called to 1836 S. McClelland Street (1040 East)
just before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a young girl not
breathing, according to Salt Lake police. She was taken to a local
hospital in extremely critical condition.


Juan Pablo Rivera-Aguilar

"The 2-year-old had blunt force trauma on her head and stomach
and appeared to have been struck multiple times. The attending physician
reports the victim appears to be brain dead and is not expected to
survive," according to Salt Lake County Jail documents.
Juan Pablo Rivera-Aguilar, 32, was booked into the Salt Lake
County Jail for investigation of 10 counts of child abuse and two counts
of violence in the presence of a child.
Aguilar is the boyfriend of the victim's mother and was watching
the child and her 4-year-old brother when the alleged abuse occurred,
according to police. The brother also showed signs of abuse but not
serious enough that required him being taken to the hospital,
investigators said. He told detectives that Aguilar "pulled out" his hair.
Several clumps of hair were found in Aguilar's apartment by investigators
executing a search warrant, booking records state.
The brother told police he watched Aguilar punch his sister in
the head five times and in the stomach five times, according to jail records.
Aguilar's brother, Sam Rivera says he doesn't believe his brother is
guilty. "They like him (the kids), if he was an abuser, the kids would
be afraid to be with him for him to watch them," Rivera said.
Police said the girl, who's name was not released, died
Wednesday. Additional charges will likely be screened when the case it
taken to the Salt Lake District Attorney's Office.
Aguilar pleaded guilty in 1996 to a charge of providing
prohibited items to a minor, a class B misdemeanor, according to court
records. He was also convicted of an amended charge of attempting to
violate the conditions of his release after being arrested for domestic
violence, also a class B misdemeanor, according to Utah State Court records.

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Salt Lake man pleads guilty to fatally beating toddler

By Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune
Published: December 29, 2011 09:27AM
Updated: December 29, 2011 11:28PM

A Salt Lake City man has pleaded guilty to abusing and killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter last summer.

Juan Rivera-Aguilar, 33, entered his plea Wednesday in 3rd District Court to first-degree felony child-abuse homicide. The charge was brought in connection with the July death of Dania Rosiles.

According to court documents, Rivera-Aguilar was babysitting the girl when he punched her in the stomach five times, causing fatal internal bleeding.

Police said Rivera-Aguilar also hit the girl’s 4-year-old brother and pulled his hair. During a search of the home, near 1800 South and McClelland Street, police found clumps of hair.

In exchange for his plea, two second-degree felony counts of inflicting injury on a child were dismissed.

Rivera-Aguilar faces a possible sentence of five years to life in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 13.

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Judge doesn't buy explanation, sends man to prison for killing 2-year-old girl

By Emiley Morgan, Deseret News
Published: Monday, May 21 2012 3:00 p.m. MDT

SALT LAKE CITY — Juan Pablo Aguilar-Rivera pleaded guilty to killing little Dania Rosiles.

But as he stood to be sentenced Monday, his family and his attorney insisted he didn't harm his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter whom he was baby-sitting.

"My client's stood by his statement that he doesn't know what happened to the girl," defense attorney Sean Young said. "He maintains that he tried to help her with CPR. He asked his sister-in-law to call police."

But 3rd District Judge Robin Reese found that explanation "hard to fathom" considering the girl's injuries. He ordered Aguilar-Rivera to serve five years to life in prison for child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony, and also sentenced him to pay restitution in the case.

Aguilar-Rivera, 33, has served as caretaker to many of his relatives and did not kill Dania, Young said. Aguilar-Rivera was caring for the child July 5, 2011, when police were called to 1836 S. McClelland St. (1040 East) on a report of a young girl that was not breathing.

Prosecutor Rob Parrish detailed the child's injuries, which included severe hemorrhaging in her brain and abdominal injuries consistent with being hit. He said Aguilar-Rivera told police that he punched Dania in the abdomen after she interrupted him when he was playing a cell phone game, but said in court that he didn't know what happened.

"This was a very brutal, extended assault on this little 2-year-old girl," Parrish said. "There's really no mitigating factors at all."

The judge agreed with the prosecutor and pointed out additional evidence of abuse, such as knuckle marks on the girl's body and the fact that clumps of hair were missing from her head.

"For you to stand here and tell me this is some big accident and you're just a loving caregiver is hard to fathom," Reese said.

Aguilar-Rivera's brother, Samuel Rivera, described his brother is a "loving, caring person" who continues to have his entire family's support.

"He is innocent," Rivera said. "My brother isn't responsible for this. … We know he's not capable of something like this."

Rivera said Dania had health problems that caused her to bruise easily and lose her hair long before his brother came into the picture. Aguilar-Rivera pleaded guilty to the charge, but his brother said it was only on advice of his previous attorney who warned him he could get a much harsher sentence at trial.

"It's terrible, our whole family is sad," Rivera said of the prison sentence.

Aguilar-Rivera is the boyfriend of the victim's mother and was watching the child and her 4-year-old brother when the abuse occurred, according to police. The brother also showed signs of abuse but not serious enough that required him being taken to the hospital, investigators said. He told detectives that Aguilar-Rivera "pulled out" his hair.

The 4-year-old brother told police he watched Aguilar-Rivera punch his sister in the head five times and in the stomach five times, according to the report.

"She was beaten over an extended period of time and she died as a result of head and abdominal injuries," Parrish said.

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