Former Georgia magnificence queen Trinity Madison Poague bawled her eyes out in courtroom as she confronted sentencing for the homicide of her ex-boyfriend’s toddler son.
Poague, 20, was discovered responsible of felony homicide, aggravated battery and baby cruelty in Sumter County Superior Courtroom in Georgia on Friday for the January 2024 homicide of 18-month-old Romeo “Jaxton Dru” Angeles, WALB reported.
Poague was discovered not responsible on malice homicide.
She broke down in tears because the decide handed down a life sentence and a further 20 concurrent years — slightly below an hour after the jury returned its responsible verdict.
“I don’t do a variety of talking when I’m passing the sentence. I’ve heard the case, and I’ve thought-about the tragedy,” W. James Sizemore, Jr. stated as a distressed Poague stared blankly.
“The underside line is you’re going to obtain a sentence of life in jail.”
Poague, a sophomore at Georgia Southwestern State College on the time, murdered the younger tot inside her boyfriend Julian Williams’ dorm room whereas he was out choosing up a pizza.
She texted Williams that his son was not respiratory, prompting him to hurry again, discover the toddler unresponsive, and drive him straight to the ER.
Romeo by no means regained stability and was pronounced lifeless regardless of medical doctors’ makes an attempt to stabilize the infant boy for an emergency flight to a kids’s hospital in Atlanta.
Poague was charged with the homicide per week after the toddler’s loss of life.
Throughout her quick trial, prosecutors argued that she killed the 18-month-old out of resentment as a result of she wished a toddler of her personal with Williams.
“She wished to have a toddler or kids with Julian Williams,” Prosecutor Lewis Lamb advised jurors on Tuesday, in line with courtroom footage from CourtTV. “However not that baby.”
The prosecution additional claimed that whereas on the hospital, Poague looked for phrases like “How do you get a mind bleed?” and “How can a depressed cranium fracture go unnoticed?”
Poague first advised investigators the toddler was consuming chips moments earlier than he grew to become unresponsive, a declare the medical expert refuted after figuring out he hadn’t eaten in any respect.
The examination, nevertheless, discovered he had suffered blunt-force trauma to his head and torso so extreme his mind was left “ineffective.”
Emergency room doctor Dr. Michael Busman advised the courtroom that Poague’s account was inconsistent with Romeo’s accidents, explaining that head swelling and fluid from the toddler’s nostril pointed to “a direct blow.”
Poague earned the 2023 Miss Donalsonville title and later participated within the Nationwide Peanut Competition magnificence pageant, the place she didn’t place, the Early County Information reported.
She was stripped of her titles after being arrested for the tot’s homicide.
