A former pageant queen in Georgia has been sentenced to life in prison after k!lling her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son.
Trinity Poague was found guilty of five counts on Friday, Dec. 5, including two counts of felony murder.
“I don’t do a lot of speaking when I’m passing the sentence,” Judge W. James Sizemore Jr. of the Southwestern Circuit Court of Georgia said. “The bottom line is you’re going to receive a sentence of life in prison, which is the appropriate sentence for the conduct that you have been convicted of.”
He went on to say that Poague would also be sentenced to serve 20 additional years concurrently.
Poague appeared stoic while receiving her sentencing, though she grew visibly emotional earlier in the day when hearing the jury’s verdict.
Poague was initially arrested in January 2024, according to a press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). GBI said the boy — who was later identified as Romeo Angeles (also called Jaxton Drew) — was found unresponsive on the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University on Jan. 14, 2024.
Poague, then 18, was a student there at the time.
