SUMTER COUNTY, Ga. (Court TV) — A former Georgia pageant queen is facing life in prison if convicted of killing her boyfriend’s toddler son.

Trinity Madison Poague was arrested on Jan. 19, 2024 , five days after 18-month-old Romeo Angeles was found unresponsive in her college dorm room on Georgia Southwestern State University’s campus. Angeles, who is also referred to as “Jaxton,” later died at a hospital.

Trinity Poague appears in court on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, during a motion hearing. (Court TV)

In total, Poague is facing six charges: malice murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts of felony murder and two counts of aggravated battery. Poague pleaded not guilty last year .

An indictment obtained by Court TV accuses Poague of “inflicting blunt force trauma” to

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