Overview
- Judge W. James Sizemore Jr. imposed a life sentence plus 20 years to run concurrently shortly after the jury returned its verdict on Dec. 5.
- Jurors convicted Trinity Poague of felony murder, aggravated battery and child cruelty and acquitted her of malice murder.
- Prosecutors argued she resented the child and wanted a baby with the father, citing a message to her roommate and alleged hospital search queries.
- Medical testimony described severe blunt-force trauma with signs of a direct blow, and a medical examiner said the child’s brain was left “useless.”
- The 18-month-old, Romeo “Jaxton Dru” Angeles, was found unresponsive in a Georgia Southwestern State University dorm after Poague texted the father that he was not breathing and he died despite ER efforts.