Sage Angel Rose Wright (left) and Christian Miguel Bishop-Torrence (right) appear in mugging photos taken from the Wichita Co., Texas Jail.
According to newspaper reports, a Texas couple were charged with starving their one-year-old daughter.
According to the prison records reviewed by Law & Crime Sage Angel Rose Wright, 22, and Christian Miguel Bishop-Torrence, 25, was admitted to the Wichita County Jail on June 18, 2021. Both were charged by prosecutors with two cases of harming a child, two cases of abandoning or endangering a child, and one case of murder, according to the prison records. These records state that each of the two defendants is being held for the capital murder alone on a $ 1 million bond. For the other counts, additional borrowing amounts of $ 500,000, $ 50,000 and $ 50,000, respectively, were listed.
A grand jury on January 5, 2022 went on to indict the couple on one count each of capital murder, according to the Wichita Falls, Texas Times Record News court records. The count carries a possible death penalty or life without parole, depending on how the further proceedings unfold.
A grand jury had already indicted the couple on September 15, 2021 on the other charges, the newspaper said.
Georgia Bishop-Torrence, 1, died in a local hospital on June 11, 2021, the newspaper reported, citing court records again.
Christian Miguel Bishop-Torrence appears in a mug shot from the Wichita County Jail.
According to the report, Christian Bishop-Torrence asked a friend to drive him and the victim to the emergency room of a United Regional Health Care facility because the victim was not breathing. According to the report, the trip took place on June 11, 2021 at 11:23 p.m.
Wichita Falls police said last summer that officers answered the emergency room at 11:48 p.m. By then, Georgia would have died, according to the police report.
According to court files available to the local newspaper, the friend went to the defendant’s home to offer the couple a lift. When he got to the defendant’s home, Georgia was “gasping for air,” the newspaper said.
Christian Bishop-Torrence reportedly told emergency room staff that the girl “was not breathing and was not responsive,” the newspaper said. The emergency room staff took Georgia to a trauma room but were unable to resuscitate her. She was pronounced dead at 11:45 p.m., according to court files quoted by the newspaper.
“Medical staff told a Wichita Falls police officer that the baby had wounds on the body and was severely malnourished,” the newspaper added. “An investigator arrived at around 12:46 pm on June 12 and saw that the child appeared neglected and malnourished. It was dirty and had blisters. “
The child had apparently lost weight for some time, but medical help was not sought, the court records say. Christian Bishop-Torrence told investigators that he was “cranky (expletive),” but newspaper coverage does not reveal the swear phrase he used.
Bishop-Torrence said Georgia started losing weight in March, but Wright said the girl had lost weight since January. Wright reportedly told investigators that she was struggling to bond with the baby. Wright has two other children, the reports say.
Sage Angel Rose Wright appears in a mug shot from the Wichita County Jail.
An autopsy report quoted by Times Record News shows Georgia weighed less when she died than when she was born. A doctor reportedly told authorities that the girl “weighed 8 pounds and 8 ounces, but should have weighed 22 to 24 pounds,” the newspaper said as it was summarizing the case file.
According to prison records, the defendant Wright weighs 381 pounds; The defendant Bishop-Torrence weighs 375 pounds.
As Law & Crime noted last summer, a forensic investigator has preventively discarded any suggestion that the child’s weight loss was the result of a “genetic or metabolic problem”.
“[N]normal newborn screens and the lack of a family history would make this very unlikely. ” Dr. Suzanne Dakil of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in a report.
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