Aaron Trejo was a sixteen year old living in Indiana when he would murder his girlfriend Breana Rouhselang
According to court documents Aaron Trejo and Breana Rouhselang were in a relationship when they found out that she was pregnant. The two would get into an argument on what to do with the child when Trejo would fatally stab Breana in the chest
Following the stabbing Aaron Trejo would put Breana Rouhselang body into a bag and threw it into a trash container behind a restaurant and then threw her wallet and phone into a river
Aaron Trejo would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to sixty five years in prison
Aaron Trejo Case
An Indiana teen who murdered the high school cheerleader who was pregnant with his baby was sentenced to 65 years in prison Tuesday.
Aaron Trejo, 16, received 55 years in prison for the murder of Breana Rouhselang in December 2018 and 10 years for a feticide count in the murder of their baby, according to Fox 59.
Court documents show Trejo, a high school football player for Mishawaka High, admitted to fighting with 17-year-old Rouhselang about the unborn child before stabbing her in the heart.
In charging documents obtained by Fox News, South Bend Detective Gery Mullins wrote that Trejo told him that “Breana waited too long to tell [him] about the pregnancy to get an abortion. I asked Aaron what he did about that, and he replied, ‘I took action … I took her life.’” The girl’s stepmother, Nicole Rouhselang, told reporters her stepdaughter had been about six months pregnant.
Rouhselang had been a softball coach, a cheerleader and football team manager, her stepmother added.
Trejo told Mullins he stabbed Rouhselang in the heart because he thought it would kill her quickly. He put her body in a black plastic bag, tossed the bag into a trash bin behind a restaurant and threw her phone and the weapon into a river in Mishawaka, which is about 80 miles east of Chicago.
He pleaded guilty to charges of murder and feticide and was tried as an adult.
Aaron Trejo News
An Indiana teenager who authorities said killed a pregnant schoolmate after she waited too long to tell him about her pregnancy to get an abortion has been sentenced to 65 years in prison.
Aaron Trejo was sentenced Tuesday in St. Joseph County Superior Court for the December 2018 killing of 17-year-old Brena Rouhselang. He had pleaded guilty late last year to murder and feticide, reported CNN.
The killing happened after Rouhselang, a cheerleader and junior at Mishawaka High School, told Trejo that she was six months pregnant, authorities said.
Trejo, then 16 and a member of the school’s football team, was alleged to be the father, and neither of them wanted to have the child, according to court documents.
He confessed in December 2018 to stabbing Rouhselang and wrapping her in a plastic bag, having planned to kill her and the baby for about a week, court documents say.
“I took action. … I took her life,” he said, because by the time she told him about the pregnancy, it was too late for her to have an abortion, according to an affidavit.
Trejo stabbed the girl with a knife because he thought it would kill her quickly, court documents alleged. She also was choked with her scarf, and he put a black plastic bag over her, put her body in a dumpster and threw her phone and the knife in a river, court papers said.
Trejo received 55 years for murder and 10 years, to be served consecutively, for feticide. He was given more than a year of credit — 394 days — for time already served.
He had faced up to 65 years for murder and up to 16 years for feticide.
