Rebecca Hogue, the mother of Ryder, got indicted and was put in jail for her boyfriend’s crime. After Trent was found dead, the inquiry turned on Hogue. Authorities charged her with first-degree murder.
The law says that parents who fail to safeguard their children from child abuse in Oklahoma may face the same charges as the offender. Hogue claimed that she had no clue that Trent was abusing Ryder until that day.
Nevertheless, she had seen the kid had minor unexplained bruises not long before his death. According to police interviews, when she asked Trent about it, he told her that boys get “nicks and bruises.”
We will be in court this afternoon to support #RebeccaHogue & won’t be allowed on our phones. Follow @reesejgorman for updates on her sentencing hearing
We hope today brings an end to this torturous nightmare of injustice she’s been living since Ryder’s murder. #JusticeForRebecca— Stacey Wright (@wildestredhead) February 11, 2022
Prosecutors claimed that her early concerns about his injuries, as well as the fact that she continued to let Trent babysit her kid, prove she was guilty of “allowing her child to be murdered.”
Thus, the jury convicted her in November with a possibility of sentencing her to life in prison. The case has caught huge attention on social media, and many people have signed petitions to stop the sentence.
She will appear in court today at 1.30 p.m.
