The former winner of Food Network's 'Worst Cooks in America' was sentenced to life in prison after she was found guilty of beating her 3-year-old foster daughter to death.
The former winner of Food Network's"Worst Cooks in America" was sentenced to life in prison after she was found guilty of beating her 3-year-old foster daughter to death.
A jury in Greenville County, South Carolina, convicted Ariel Robinson of homicide by child abuse in the Jan. 14, 2021 death of Victoria Smith, court records obtained by NBC News show. She was sentenced on Thursday. "I can say that in my 13, 14 years of being a judge I've never seen anything like this. Not even approaching it," said Judge Letitia H. Verdin in a video from court obtained by NBC affiliate"And what compounds it is that I understand what your attorney is saying, perhaps you snapped at that moment, but then why let this child suffer and not get the medical attention that she desperately needed as she lay dying in her own bedroom," the judge continued.
Ariel Robinson sits next to her Attorney Bill Bouton during a court hearing at the Greenville County courthouse on April 14, 2022.Verdin said that based on the facts, the sentence"cannot be anything other than life in prison."accused of inflicting a"series of blunt force injuries" to VictoriaThe couple was arrested in January 2021 and charged with homicide by child abuse, court records show.
Ariel Robinson testified at her trial that she was not responsible for Victoria's injuries, saying that her husband must have fatally beat the girl, according to the news station. She said she left the night before Victoria's death to get groceries and when she returned the following morning, the girl went limp after breakfast.An attorney for Ariel Robinson could not immediately be reached Friday. Jerry Robinson's attorney, Lucas C. Marchant, said:"Mr.
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