Life imprisonment, that would be the punishment that Rebecca Hogue, from Oklahoma, would initially face for the murder of her son, Ryder, 2 years old, at the hands of her boyfriend Christopher Trent.
According to a sworn statement, to which BBC Mundo had access, after a long day of work, Rebecca Hogue came home exhausted and the first thing she did was take off her work clothes and went to bed; Next to her was her son and her boyfriend.
At dawn, Rebecca Hogue realized that her son was not breathing and called 911 to ask for help; At that time her boyfriend Christopher Trent was no longer at home, apparently he had gone to work
When the rescuers arrived at the scene they found the desperate mother trying to revive her little one . The minor was taken to the hospital in an emergency where he was pronounced dead.
According to the aforementioned medium, the former waitress of a casino in the city of Norman called Christopher Trent on several occasions to tell him what had happened, however, He had no response.
The coroner’s report concluded that Ryder died from blunt force trauma; investigators for their part found traces of the minor’s hair on the wall of the house that Rebecca Hogue and Christopher Trent shared.
Four days after Ryder’s death, the police found the body of Christopher Trent in the Wichita mountains with apparent signs of suicide, in addition to a message carved into the trunk of a tree that read: “Rebecca is innocent”
After the arrest of Rebecca Hogue , the victim’s mother stated that she had suspicions that her boyfriend beat her son, even searched the internet on several occasions if the minor’s injuries were natural, due to assault and even sexual abuse, however, Trent denied a and another time that he was hurting the minor.
Despite the fact that one of the prosecutors stated on one occasion that there was no direct evidence to incriminate Rebecca Hogue for the murder of her son and that there had been been Christopher Trent who committed the crime, the jury found otherwise. After looking at the images of the minor with blows all over his little body, including his genitals, the jury determined that the woman should pay for the crime with a life sentence.
Added to her case the “Lack of Protection” law; under some states’ laws, parents who fail to protect their children from abuse are charged with the same crime committed against minors.
However, this Friday the during a hearing the case took an unexpected turn.
“Ryder was my entire existence. Without my son, my world has been torn apart. I would have done anything to prevent the abuse that occurred. I don’t want to die in a jail cell,” Rebeca Hogue said during sentencing.
After clemency from the victim’s mother, Judge Michael Tupper sentenced Hogue to 16 months in prison with three months served.
“You are not a monster, you have value. Years is not a proportional punishment, months is fairer. Each month will be representative of a year in which you would have been legally responsible for Ryder,” Tupper said as he handed down Hogue’s sentence.
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