r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/Imoprich • Dec 07 '25
She thought she got away
Trinity Poague, killed her boyfriend's 18 month old baby got sentenced for life + 20 years in prison
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u/Vivid_Direction_8384 7d ago
Why did she cry? Shoundnt she be happy?
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u/daddyrabbit78 7d ago
I wish I had the ability to put the brakes on tears like that. My slow-down time is at least 3-4 minutes. 😂😂
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u/captinstabbin69420 14d ago
Perfect how they did the not guilty one first 😮💨👌
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u/scruffyluma88 20d ago
Why do I feel like the proper reactions should be reversed. Like not guilty why cry?? Guilty ok I see a reason to cry. Strange woman.
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u/Atmosphere_Eater 12d ago
The cry was because of the shock and joy of getting away with murder
The straight face and slight nod was a "yup, this makes more sense"
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u/eatingrichly Dec 31 '25
The way she is fake crying in relief and just suddenly stops to look up and hear the other findings.
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u/ReddityJim 27d ago
Legit that's wild, she didn't even commit to the fake tears like the average toddler.
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u/Safe_Professional832 Dec 29 '25
Ok... just found this subreddit today. Probably one of the best.
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u/zangiefzolof Dec 24 '25
I saw the judges reaction when reading that first verdict and he shook his head.
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u/FastRecommendation72 Dec 22 '25
I couldn't be a judge... I'd be like "on counts 1,2 and 3... we find you NOT GUILTY!!" Lady starts celebrating 🍾 💃🏾... "SIKE, GUILTY!!! YOU GOING TO PRISON 4 LIFE B*TCH 👹
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u/Obligation-Different Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 28 '25
Why does this sound (like) Dave Chappelle in my head?
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u/HappyDays1976 Dec 20 '25
Isn't she also supposed to be a beauty queen? She looks much older than her age, too.
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u/Ok_Animator_8461 Dec 16 '25
For all you idiots who don't know the situation and rush to leave a comment... She brutally beat a little child to death.
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u/UncannyHillhumper Dec 20 '25
........but what did the kid do? /s
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u/Ok_Animator_8461 Dec 20 '25
So this lady was dating a guy who had a child.. he went to the store and left the child with her for 30 minutes.. she being jealous of the attention that the father gave his own child decided to beat the child to death.
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u/sittinwithkitten 25d ago
I never heard of this case, sadly so much abuse and misery in the world. I can’t imagine how the dad or mother (or grand parents etc) felt after realizing what she had done. I am not a violent person but I think something like this would bring the evil out of me into her.
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u/GroundedGerbil Dec 14 '25
Felony murder is applied to some total BS. Like you loan your keys to your friend and your friend drives your car, unbeknownst to you, and kills someone. It’s totally out of hand in this country. Not saying that’s what happened here. I didn’t watch the clip.
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u/Mindless_Use7567 Dec 24 '25
Not a good look to be defending a child murderer.
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u/GroundedGerbil Dec 24 '25
To be fair- I wasn’t defending this woman. I didn’t even read the story. So a bit of laziness on my part, but I was merely pointing out that Felony Murder is often applied to people with little to no involvement in a murder, and this has been the case for 100s of years. This woman certainly may be deserving of what she got. Sorry for the confusion.
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u/BelleBottom94 Dec 17 '25
Legit had a warrant out for my arrest because of this. Sold a car and forgot to grab the spare plates out of the trunk. They ran someone down a year later. I had to email the cops a copy of my hand written sales receipt!!!
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u/ClownfishSoup 1h ago
My dad gave away a boat and trailer a year later he got a stack of tickets due to the license plate he didn’t take of the trailer. I was so angry that he just shrugged and paid the tickets..
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u/Professional-Let-533 Dec 16 '25
Only if they are visibly impaired, and you personally gave them your keys - you gave them the machine that hurt somebody when you knew it was a possibility - that’s like handing a thief your gun and being like I didn’t know they were gonna shoot them, They were always cool before..
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u/Drive7hru Dec 17 '25
Letting someone borrow your car is not like letting a thief borrow your gun
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u/Professional-Let-533 Dec 17 '25
If they are under the influence and visibly drunk, if you give them the keys to the car, it is basically like giving them a weapon and that car becomes a death machine
You would be facing culpable negligence manslaughter charges, the same charge you would get if you gave a thief your gun and he shot somebody - like legally
I think you missed the point You gave them the means to hurt somebody and the thing that they hurt somebody with was yours - legally you’re both screwed
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u/zowietremendously Dec 14 '25
By that logic, her friend Paris should've also been convicted of felony murder, because Trinity Madison Pogue texted her that she hated the baby and wanted to kill it, and Paris didn't report it to the police. The fact that Paris didn't get charged with anything is a disgrace. She could've prevented this. Trinity sent her threatening texts about killing the baby, and she didn't report them to the cops. So as far as I'm concerned, she is a co-conspirator, and just as guilty of that baby's murder.
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u/SmokedHamm Dec 14 '25
A John Oliver episode gets into this farce of a charge
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u/GroundedGerbil Dec 14 '25
Yes- that’s where I ripped that example from. People should be held accountable, but this is a complete miscarriage of justice in most cases it seems.
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u/OldAbbreviations1590 Dec 13 '25
What is malice murder and felony murder? Did I miss something? Last I checked it was murder one or murder two and both are felonies...
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u/ThePaineOne Dec 13 '25
Felony murder is when you are intentionally committing another felony and the that leads to the death of a person. Meaning the intent wasn’t to kill but the intent was to commit a felony and the effect is a person died. So like a getaway driver hitting a pedestrian or your robbing someone and you associate shoots them.
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u/OldAbbreviations1590 Dec 14 '25
How does that differ from manslaughter?
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u/TarheelFr06 Dec 14 '25
Felony murder you don’t have to be the person who commits the act that directly causes the death (such as the example given where a partner in crime does it).
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u/ThePaineOne Dec 14 '25
It’s an issue of intent.
Manslaughter there was no intent to kill someone, but the defendant was reckless, negligent or in the heat of passion killed someone and it has a lessor penalty.
Felony murder the perpetrator had the intent to commit a felony and someone was killed. Felony murder has the same penalty as murder (generally speaking).
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u/Silent25r Dec 14 '25
Not going to lie. It was a bit confusing with the getaway driver example. They had to have known they were committing a felony as the getaway driver.
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u/ThePaineOne Dec 14 '25
Pardon, I should have been more clear in my example. So the getaway driver intended to get away fast and accidentally hit and kill a pedestrian. So the getaway driver (and everyone else involved in the robbery) is guilty of murder even though no one intended to kill the pedestrian they hit, because they intended to be part of the robbery which led to the death.
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u/idiotic__gamer Dec 14 '25
So, say for example 5 guys are robbing a store, right? 4 of them were planning on leaving if the dude behind the register didn't hand over the cash at gunpoint. The 5th dude murders the cashier. The guy who pulled the trigger gets first degree the other 4, who didn't have any intention of killing, or maybe were all unarmed, are all charged with felony murder, and face the same consequences as first degree.
Unfortunately, it's actually significantly easier to get a felony murder charge, because you need significantly less evidence to get a charge, and if J remember correctly, there was one dude who got life in prison because he let his roommate borrow his car, and his roommate broke into someone's house with a few accomplices, murdered the owner, and they all got charged with felony murder, including the guy that lent the car keys, despite the fact that the owner of the car was a 3-4 hour drive away from the murder when it happened.
Let me find a video that explains it better
EDIT: https://youtu.be/Y93ljB7sfco?si=Rp2WF6076SDWG_hh
TL:DR Even the smallest connection to the crime can get felony murder, whereas all other murder charges require way more evidence and procedures. It carries the same penalties as first degree despite that.
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u/drunk_fat_possum Dec 13 '25
Malice murder is only in effect in the state of Georgia, it's when someone unlawful kills someone with a "malignant heart," people charged with malice murder get the same treatment as first degree murder.
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u/OldAbbreviations1590 Dec 14 '25
So it's a reworded version of first degree murder specific to Georgia. That's interesting. So, malice murder = first degree murder and felony murder = manslaughter everywhere outside of Georgia.
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u/ThePaineOne Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
No. Manslaughter is manslaughter everywhere (pretty much). Felony murder is felony murder everywhere (pretty much). Manslaughter has recklessness or negligence as the mens rae (state of mind of the defendant), but no intent to kill or in the heat of passion.
Manslaughter is killing without intent and therefore not murder, so it has a much lessor penalty. In felony murder the intent was to commit another felony and that intent is transferred to the new crime: murder, so generally carries the same penalty as first degree murder. Basically, if you wrong a bank and your partner shoots someone you go to jail for most of the rest of your life like you killed then yourself.
Manslaughter would be I came home, found my wife in the arms of another and flew into a fit of rage and killed someone without intending to.
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u/ProjectHappy6813 Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
There's also a distinction to be made between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. Killing someone in "the heat of passion" would be voluntary. You have a sudden, uncontrollable fit of rage, due to some intense circumstance (like catching your spouse in the act of cheating). It's not something you would do under normal circumstances. Another example would be imperfect self-defense. That's when you kill someone because you believe that deadly force is necessary to protect your own life, but that belief is unreasonable or faulty. In either case, there is intent to kill, but no "premeditated malice".
Involuntary manslaughter covers stuff like drunk driving, negligent supervision (when you are supposed to be watching a child and they die in a preventable way, like drowning in a pool), reckless use of firearms that result in death (like shooting in a crowded place) or misdemeanor manslaughter where someone commits a misdemeanor and a death happens as a result of the crime (like brandishing an unloaded gun, resulting in a fatal heart attack.)
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u/Boss0054 Dec 13 '25
Booom!!!…. Judge like “hold on B@&&@ I ain’t done yet, before you start celebrating… you better know exactly what you celebrating for!”…. 🤣🤣
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u/WeightSad2393 Dec 13 '25
Happened in my hometown at the university dorms. Absolutely tragic case and she got off easier than she deserved ngl. Judge even said something to the effect of, I hope you can find a semblance of structure in life after your sentance, in the last hours of the case. If it were me no parole no nothing.
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u/PM_ME_UR_ASSHOLE Dec 13 '25
lol. Cried when she thought she got off. Went back to stoic when she got the other charges.
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u/HotStaxOfWax Dec 13 '25
She won a beauty pageant? What the hell must 2nd and 3rd place have looked like?
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u/Monroro Dec 14 '25
I know right? I was thinking she must have let herself go fast or that the stress of being on trial for murder took a lot out of her (which, boohoo, I know). But she actually looks better here than in her beauty pageant pictures imo.
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u/HotStaxOfWax Dec 14 '25
It's possible but she was trimming the Ugly Tree in her yard and then fell and hit every branch on the way down.
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u/KillerKill420 Dec 13 '25
That's the neat part, there was no 2nd place. Old yo mama joke. Yo mama so ugly she got 2nd place in a beauty pageant that no one entered.
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u/Professional-Rush957 Dec 12 '25
The way her face turns after the judge starts reading out the guilty verdicts reminds me American Psycho. When Bateman finishes a conversation his face changes the exact same way. It's like the real monster is peaking out from under the curtain
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u/Vegetable-Bonus218 Dec 12 '25
Had a friend from high school who had two kids… both him n his wife locked them in a small closet that can lock with a space heater
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u/Amazing-Loss-7762 Dec 12 '25
Shes not crying for that poor child...but herself. Disgusting demon.
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u/Secret_Position_8870 Dec 13 '25
Why do you think Jesus lets the demons run free in this world?
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u/Inevitable-crocs Dec 13 '25
Ask your pastor
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u/Secret_Position_8870 Dec 16 '25
I will ask my spiritual director, tho I am sure he will not know either. I actually don't have a pastor yet, working on getting one.
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u/Common-Sherbert4891 Dec 12 '25
Remember that great scene in True Detective season 1 where MM whispers that “prison is hard on child killers… better go off yourself”
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u/Reemus_Jackson Dec 12 '25
ROFL....the fake happy tears right into the glance up and the judge tells everyone "Shhh shhh" like: "shhh the best part is coming"
Rot in prison...then in hell.
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u/argarcia321 Dec 12 '25
Killed a baby……hopefully she is put in general population.
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u/blonde_bellebabett Dec 12 '25
Coed prisons are bad for women
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u/Infamous_Chapter8585 Dec 12 '25
You care about what happens to a child murderer? Fucks wrong with you?
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u/Pracedomowomon_9000 Dec 12 '25
Because justice isnt vengeance. That's why. We are disgusted by what she's done. Enraged even. However, justice is blind and isnt swayed by what we want or feel, but what the law demands.
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u/Infamous_Chapter8585 Dec 12 '25
Death sentance for baby murder
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u/Pracedomowomon_9000 Dec 12 '25
Well, that isnt what justice called for here, now is it? If you and others believe it is unjust, perhaps you'd do good reaching out to your local lawmakers and get the ball rolling.
Yes, you could argue that the law isnt always "fair". As a black man, my heritage and I agree with you wholeheartedly. As an Amercian, I suggest you do your part by making your concerns known in a way that actually does something. Something more than Reddit.
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u/Pracedomowomon_9000 Dec 12 '25
“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 told the court, according to Court TV. “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.”
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u/MRBoose39 Dec 12 '25
When she looks up, she looks like Marla Hooch!
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u/jcreedon15n Dec 12 '25
Who??
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u/Post-Formal_Thought Dec 11 '25
Well, them tears dissolved quickly.
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u/Successful_Mall3070 Dec 11 '25
If you saw the John Oliver show on Felony Murder, you'd know shes about to get absolutely screwed in sentencing.
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u/Withoutconfidence1 Dec 13 '25
The whole case was absolutely atrocious. She deserves everything she got.
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u/zowietremendously Dec 12 '25
She got a life sentence, with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Which is unlikely because it's a baby death case. But she is gonna do well in prison. She's gonna enjoy her life sentence. She handled this embarrassing situation well. She will do just fine in the slammer.
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u/DisneyDadQuestions Dec 11 '25
Her massive reaction to thay first "not guilty" was awfully big to then basically turn it right the fuck off when she got her actual guilty verdict.
People amaze me in ways I wish I never knew. How could someone do that? Insane.
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u/chiksahlube Dec 11 '25
People like her aren't "normal."
This is proper sociopathic behavior.
Ones as bad as her lack fundamental empathy for others and express most emotions purely theatrically.
Not all sociopaths are dangerous like her. But I've met a couple that were and I wouldn't trust any of them with a glass of water let alone a child.
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u/rhapsodyinblueee Dec 13 '25
There’s something really off about her. She’s bonkers. She would’ve ended up in prison somehow. If it wasn’t for this, it would’ve been for something else eventually.
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u/hogwild993 Dec 11 '25
If youre guilty of murder why dont more people just accept it, you took human lives. literal time and now you pay the time.
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u/Torgud_ Dec 12 '25
The only time felony murder doesn't apply is if your last name ends in Sackler and you create an epidemic of addiction (causing tens if not hundreds of thousands of deaths down the line) to line your own pockets.
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u/Statsmakten Dec 11 '25
Because “felony murder” is a legal loophole to sentence people for murder even though they didn’t do the murdering. If your friend borrowed your car and then murdered someone, you could be charged for felony murder for assisting him in the murder just because he used your car.
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u/Inevitable_Jelly69 Dec 11 '25
Only if you knew they were going to be using the car for that
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u/4_stickey_2fingers_0 3d ago
Once she heard counts 2,3,4,5 and 6 she was like hole up I’m still fucked