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former beauty pageant queen is accused of beating her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son to de@th in her college dorm room while her partner went to pick up pizza.
Trinity Poague, 20, has pleaded not guilty to charges of malice murd3r, first-degree cruelty to children, felony murd3r, and aggravated battery.
Prosecutors claimed that Poague resented the child because she wanted one of her own with her boyfriend, Julian Williams. They also alleged that she sent texts to her roommate, saying she wanted to punch the child.
On 14 January, 2024, Little Romeo “Jaxton” Angeles was found unresponsive with fatal blunt force trauma wounds at Georgia Southwestern State University.
Poague, who was Miss Donalsonville winner, claims the toddler fell off the bed, but police say she caused “serious disfigurement to his liver” and “rendered his brain useless”, according to an indictment obtained by Court TV.
District Attorney Lewis R. “Bud” Lamb said that Poague and her boyfriend had gone out to dinner with the child the night before his de@th. She allegedly texted the child “hates me and I hate him” to her roommate, Paris.
Poague later asked her roommate to sleep in her room as the child was allegedly being fussy, and her boyfriend was no help.
