Rebecca Latane Hogue Sentenced to 16 Months in Jail

When it’s all stated and performed, Rebecca Latane Hogue, 30, has an opportunity at a brand new life. A choose sentenced the Oklahoma mom on Friday to only 16 months in jail, with the remaining suspended. That is opposite to the jury’s suggestion that she spend the remainder of her days behind bars for enabling her boyfriend Christopher Trent, who fatally beat her son Jeremiah “Ryder” Johnson Jr., 2, in response to KOCO. She is getting credit score for 3 months time served. The protection stated she was a sufferer like her son, and that jurors solely had a selection between recommending life or life with out parole. Prosecutors had maintained she both knew or ought to have recognized Trent was abusing the kid within the time earlier than the boy died.

The protection isn’t budging on the query of Hogue’s culpability. She is harmless and a sufferer like Johnson, they stated in a sentencing memorandum dated Jan. 28. They argued that the official investigation was incomplete and flawed. The protection known as Trent’s actions sociopathic and unpredictable, and that he efficiently lined up the abuse to Hogue. The truth that the coverup labored will not be indicative of Hogue’s guilt, they stated.

Hogue awoke Jan. 1, 2020 to seek out her son not respiratory, in response to the model of occasions reported by KOCO. The two-year-old had sustained bruises and accidents to his face, head and again. Investigators found a big gap in the master suite that includes what appeared to be the toddler’s hair. Cops looked for Trent, however he died, apparently by suicide at Wichita Wildlife Mountain Refuge. Phrases carved into the tree close to his physique, in response to the BBC: “Rebecca is harmless.”

This nonetheless left Hogue alone to face legal court docket.

That is the case of mother charged after her boyfriend killed her 2 yr outdated son
Jeremiah “Ryder” Johnson whereas she was at work.
Prosecutors say Hogue was conscious of earlier abuse to her son. Her boyfriend, Christopher Trent, took his personal life days after the homicide. https://t.co/t4DWuYG5Cz

— Tiffany Alaniz (@TiffanyAlaniz) November 3, 2021

“Years will not be a proportional punishment, months is extra simply. Every month goes to be represenative of a yr that you’d have been legally chargeable for Ryder.”

— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) February 12, 2022

The protection sought probation after her conviction, suggesting that prosecutors hustled jurors.

“Let’s be clear, this trial finally grew to become an eight day journey into the prosecutor’s judgment of Rebecca’s courting decisions: nothing extra, nothing much less,” they wrote. “They seem to hate that Christopher Trent was a felon with tattoos who cursed. They made repeated arguments predicated round this at closing argument. … This was performed to confuse the problems, muddle the info for the jury, and distract them from their burden.”

The protection stated that the jury’s verdict solely mirrored a discovering of guilt with the necessary minimal sentence.

“In truth, the necessary minimal on this case solely applies as a result of the state made confused and/or intentionally over-punitive decisions to pursue costs on an inapplicable youngster neglect normal. The state’s selection NOT to convey a toddler neglect cost was intentional and designed to keep away from a compulsory minimal of zero years.”

Rebecca Hogue’s boyfriend beat her toddler son to demise whereas she was at work

So why is she in jail? https://t.co/P11zA7yyeI

— BBC Information (World) (@BBCWorld) February 11, 2022

Hogue is a sufferer on this case too, they stated.

“Rebecca Hogue is struggling immensely with melancholy, anxiousness, grief, and shock all of which is supported by the police reviews on this case that confirmed she was grieving immensely,” the protection wrote.

[Screenshot via KOCO]

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