Chelsea Brooks

[sleepingwithghosts]

The story of the pregnant 12 yr old screamed Chelsea Brooks to me.. I dont know. She was a 14 yr old girl in Wichita who was killed by friends of her baby daddy because he didnt want to be charged with statutory rape when the dna tests came back. Hes 22. Now hes facing the death penalty. I couldnt comment in her story for some reason.. it kept telling me I needed to log in.....
Here is a link to her story.

http://www.kansas.com/chelseabrooks/

Elgin Robinson was found guilty of capitol murder, aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child and violating a protective order this week.

I hope that didnt happen to the 12 yr old.

[impqueen]

I remember her. I covered that story for another blog, if memory serves.

Poor kid.

[crickett]

I pray that she is found. And if someone has hurt her, I want them found...and I hope that they are tortured and then killed.

[Nell]

That is just so sad.

[Unamused Cat]

Update:


The eight women and four men who convicted him of capital murder last week could not reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty Tuesday, as required by state law. That means Robinson's sentence for orchestrating the murder of Chelsea Brooks will be life in prison without parole.

Bah!

http://www.kansas.com/news/crimecourts/story/577110.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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Elgin Ray Robinson Jr.’s conviction for the murder of 14-year-old Chelsea Brooks was upheld by the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday morning.

Robinson was convicted of capital murder, rape, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

He had offered to pay a friend $1,000 to kill Chelsea, a middle school student who was nine months pregnant with Robinson’s child at the time of her death.

Marc Bennett, a Sedgwick County deputy district attorney who helped prosecute Robinson, said this afternoon he was pleased with the court’s decision. “I know the Brooks family cannot forget what happened to Chelsea, but I hope they can now forget about Mr. Robinson,” Bennett said.

The court’s decision means it will be unlikely Robinson will ever get out of prison; the only appeal avenue left to him now would be in the federal courts, “and he would face a difficult task there,” Bennett said.
[...]

Robinson sought a new trial, in part arguing that the court erred in failing to suppress evidence about Internet searches Robinson conducted on how to kill a baby, how to have a miscarriage, and how to find a missing person. Robinson, a cafeteria worker, had argued that the search of a computer he used in the building where he worked violated his privacy. The Supreme Court disagreed. “Robinson lacked an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the Internet searches he conducted,” the court said.
[...]

Chelsea disappeared June 9, 2006, after she went to a skating rink in Wichita with friends. She left the skating rink with Robinson’s friend, Everett Gentry, who had promised to take her to see Robinson. Six days later her body was discovered buried face down in a shallow grave in a field near Andover.

Gentry admitted his role in Brooks’ murder and had testified for the prosecution against Robinson and another man, Ted Burnett. Those two men also went to prison; Gentry received life in prison with parole possible after 25 years. Burnett received a life sentence without parole.

Gentry had testified that he picked Chelsea up on the pretense of taking her to see Robinson, the father of her unborn child who was accused of arranging the murder to avoid being charged with raping her. Gentry said that while he drove her to a remote spot in Butler County where she would be buried, he reached back to the backseat and tapped Burnett to signal Burnett to kill her. He said he turned up the radio as Burnett choked Chelsea from behind.
http://www.kansas.com/2012/03/02/2238558/elgin-robinson-conviction-upheld.html

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[malq]

Chelsea disappeared June 9, 2006, after she went to a skating rink in Wichita with friends. She left the skating rink with Robinson’s friend, Everett Gentry, who had promised to take her to see Robinson. Six days later her body was discovered buried face down in a shallow grave in a field near Andover.

http://www.kansas.com/2012/03/02/2238558/elgin-robinson-conviction-upheld.html#storylink=cpy