A Superior Court Judge denied bond for a Bulloch County woman accused of depriving her two children of basic necessities.
Warrants allege that Ramona Rawls committed two acts of Cruelty to Children in the First Degree between November 1, 2024 and May 10, 2025 by ‘willfully depriving two children of necessary sustenance.’ Specifically, her three-year-old son and her nine-year-old daughter are both purported to have been deprived of proper housing, health care, and proper nutrition to the extent that the children’s health and well-being was jeopardized.
44-year-old Rawls was arrested on May 10, 2025 after warrants were taken out by the Statesboro Police Department.
The three-year-old boy weighed 22 pounds while the 9-year-old female weighed 43.8 pounds.
Weights vary by child due to height, genetics, and circumstance, but generally speaking, the average weight for a three-year-old is between 26-38 pounds according to Cinncinati Children’s,
For a nine-year-old, the average weight is around 62 pounds, according to the World Health Organization.
Most notably, both warrants allege that Rawls’ actions caused ‘ribs to show’ on each child.
Represented by the Public Defender’s Office, Rawls appeared before Judge Michael Muldrew on June 10 – thirty days after her arrest. Following a bond hearing and a preliminary hearing, Muldrew denied Rawls’ request for pretrial release.
She will remain at the Bulloch County Jail until the case is further adjudicated.
If convicted, Rawls faces five to twenty years in prison for each offense.
