Indiana – An Indiana man was ordered to spend the next forty five years behind bars after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including one count of negIect of a dependent resuIting in death and two counts of negIect of a dependent. The defendant’s, 27-year-old Rona, conviction comes more than a year after the tragic death of his girIfriend’s 1-year-old child, OakIee, whose broken body was discovered stufed in a furniture in an abandoned house in Indiana. The defendant was arrested in Colorado on a bench warrant from Oklahoma.
As part of a plea deal, the defendant avoided more severe charges, including murder, which were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea. The plea agreement, accepted by Indiana prosecutors, brings closure to a case that spanned several states and drew widespread attention due to the disturbing circumstances of the child’s death.
The investigation began in Jan. 2023, when the victim’s biological father reported both the victim and her younger sibling missing from their home in Oklahoma. Authorities alleged that the victim’s mom, Maddison, and her partner, the defendant, took the children to Indiana without the father’s consent…