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A 36-year-old Wichita man is scheduled to go to trial later this month charged with repeated sex acts against a young relative over four years.
Robin Adams is charged with raping, fondling and abusing the girl from the time she was 7 until she was 11. The girl has told authorities that Adams held a gun to the girl’s head, a knife to her neck, burned her with cigarettes and threatened to drown her in the bathtub to keep her from telling.
The girls’ mother has been convicted of aggravated child endangerment for knowing about the abuse but not reporting it to authorities. She is currently on probation.
Details of the case were revealed in a motion filed last week by prosecutor Christine Ladner, asking a judge to consolidate three cases against Adams for a trial set to begin Jan. 26. The motion is set to be heard on Friday. Although Ladner left the Sedgwick County district attorney’s office at the beginning of the year to take a similar job in Shawnee County, she has received special permission to return to Wichita and prosecute Adams.
Adams has said through his lawyer, Alice Osburn, that the girl is mentally ill and fabricating the case. Ladner said the girl suffers serious anxiety, depression and other serious psychological problems as a result of the abuse.
On one occasion, the girl said, Adams put a gun to her head and told her “say bye to your mommy.” The girl also said he locked her in the dark bathroom for hours after she tried to call for help and made her drink urine.
Last year, Ladner made a rare request for the child to be allowed to testify via closed circuit TV. While allowed by law, it’s only been granted once in Sedgwick County during the past 10 years. But the law allows such testimony only in instances where the witness is under age 13. The case was originally charged in April 2007, but by the time it comes to trial in two weeks, she will have turned 13, forcing Ladner to withdraw her motion.
Adams is HIV-positive, according to court records, and had tested positive in the time period the girl claims he was having sex with her.
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Why does it take so for a case like this to convict and sentence a sick jerk like this? he does not deserve to breathe the air we do he so deserves the DEATH PENALTY!!
I haven’t checked lately, but last time I looked, men were presumed innocent until proven guilty. If Adams was HIV-positive during the time the alleged rapes occurred, how can the girl not be HIV-positive? Unless he used 100% effective condoms, not likely.
As a society we should be ashamed for not protecting young girls from such abuse. Instead of letting Attorney General Phill Kline help such young victims, the messenger was attacked, even by the press. Pro-abortion forces in Kansas would rather protect abortion than such young victims, and society looks the other way in many cases.
Hey Iconoclast, last time I checked there was no mention she doesn’t have HIV, but she does have a privacy act to protect her, HIPPA. And last time I checked most children don’t fabricate those kind of lies. Just admit that the step father could be guilty and try not to hard to defend the kind of garbage that rapes children. Believe it or not, these things do happen and he will get a trial. You should try working in the health field and you would be shocked at what happens to children in the real world. We give people who mistreat animals more jail time than we do child abusers.
This has nothing to do with Phil Kline – he was more interested in reporting teenagers having sex with each other and using teens who had sex as a means to get to Dr. Tiller than a genuine interest in protecting victims of sexual abuse. The brutality of this man’s alleged acts is no platform for canonizing Phil Klown. The public saw through his charade.
if the notion that a man is innocent until proven guilty is real, why then do we lock these men up until trial? children however are innocent as they have not been trained yet how to bullsh!7 their way through our legal system. further more carying the hiv virus does not mean you will transmit it every time you contact a noninfected individual. I would not recomend gambling with that though. I also suspect that a group of educated people reveiwed these charges when they were leveed before formaly charging this creep. should there be some doubt, let me speak with ths guy and I WILL CLEAR THIS UP FREE OF CHARGE.
There is no justice or honest prosecutors or defense attorneys in Wichita. Alice Osburn ran for judge as a GOP candidate in 2004 against Bribeesca and is married to the Chief Public Defender, Steve Osborn ran for the Wichita School Board in 2006. (I guess his state job did not keep him busy) Corruption is never exposed because everyone wants to advance their political career or their spouse’s political careers. The corruption in the Wichita legal system extends from the district court judges to a clique of dishonest family law attorneys, forensic psychologists & case managers, to Nola Foulston’s district attorney’s office, to the public defenders or legal services offices, to the Wichita Bar & Kansas Bar Association officals and unfortunately probably to the prosecutors in the US Attorneys Office. The local FBI law enforcement agents who cover up this corruption should be be fired or transferred out of Kansas. I wonder if former US attorney Eric Melgren helped find Scholtzman the job at Hinkle Elkouri??? I think that Sebelius, Brownback & Tiahrt will have a lot of explaining to do before the next primaries. I hope some opportunistic reform politicians should take advantage fo the scandals to promote their own careers. Joe Liddle is ready to testify before Rep. Jim Morrison’s committee about Christine Ladner.
“The girls’ mother has been convicted of aggravated child endangerment for knowing about the abuse but not reporting it to authorities.” ………. This indicates to me that there would have to be enough merit to the charges to proceed with a trial. It’s kind of unusual that someone charged anncillary to a primary defendant would be tried prior to the primary defendant. (If step-father is found not guilty of the abuse charges, how can mother be guilty of not reporting a crime that didn’t happen? She very likely made a plea agreement to testify against the step-father.) Here’s another one for the books from Wichita. Abuse of a young child is bad enough, but when it is so violent … What must the rest of the country think of Wichita, KS with the Herrman case and this case making news?
The mother should go to jail just as long as the man. A lot of women turn a blind eye to these type of happenings because they are more concerned with their own welfare than the childs. As I was repeatedly abused by my uncle, my aunt just ignored everything and when it all came out, she stayed with him till they died a few years ago. Neither one of them belong on the face of this good earth.
My heart
My heart goes out to this poor little girl!!!
This kind of crap is just happening far too often i our society anymore. What is wrong with these low-life women that allow men to sexually abuse or any other kind of abuse, their children without doing one thing to help them? It’s just another instance of how low women are becoming. And, yes, I’m a woman, but I’m certainly not very proud of my gender when I read about stuff like this happening.