Teen Pageant Queen Charged With Murder of 18-Month-Old Boy

A beauty pageant queen in southwest Georgia is behind bars after being arrested and charged with the murder of an 18-month-old boy this week, according to state authorities.

Trinity Madison Poague, 18, was charged with aggravated battery, felony murder and cruelty to a child after she was taken into custody in Americus, Georgia on Friday. She remained in the Sumter County Jail with no bond set on Sunday night, according to jailhouse records.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that its agents had arrested Poague after “multiple interviews & an examination of the evidence” in the case. The bureau said that it had been asked to investigate the death of a child by the police department at Georgia Southwest State University, the Americus school where Poague enrolled as a freshman, last Sunday.

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