Posted on 05/13/2022 12:56:53 PM PDT by Drew68
Ariel Robinson’s foster child, Victoria “Tori” Smith, was just days away from being officially adopted by the reality contestant and her husband when the 3-year-old died from blunt force trauma.
Ariel Robinson, a former contestant and winner of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America, was found guilty of homicide by child abuse in the beating death of her 3-year-old foster daughter by a Greenville County, South Carolina jury on Thursday.
It took about an hour-and-a-half for the jury to deliberate and reach their final conviction, according to local outlet WYFF.
The verdict ended a four-day trial in which Ariel and her husband, Jerry "Austin" Robinson, testified. Graphic images of the injuries inflicted on Victoria "Tori" Smith were also shown in court.
"In my 13-14 years as a judge, I've never seen anything like this," Judge Letitia Verdin said during Ariel's sentencing, per The Sun News. "Not even approaching it."
Jerry has not yet been sentenced, but pleaded guilty to his role in the death of little Tori in April, and faces a minimum of 10 to 20 years in prison for homicide by child abuse/aiding and abetting, reports FOXCarolina.
Bill Bouton, an attorney for the Robinsons, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
Ariel and her husband were arrested on Jan. 19 last year in connection to the Jan. 14 death of Smith, who died from blunt force injuries, PEOPLE previously reported.
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May the little angel Rest In Peace. What a Hellish short life. Given up and then murdered.
Death penalty would be more appropriate, imo.
Black Lives Matter said the black man unconvincingly.
THAT local FOSTER SYSTEM needs a complete overhaul.
The poor little thing must have had too much white privilege or something.
Best I can tell, she wasn't given up. She was taken away from her biological family (along with her brothers). There was another article about how her real parents were in mourning after she was murdered last year.
I can't find the reason she was removed from her birth parents but apparently, Child Protection Services in South Carolina have a horrible reputation.
Pick on someone your own size.
Like a hippo.
Friggin’ CPS wanted to cremate the baby instead of letting her family bury her. The ghouls wanted to destroy the evidence.
Killing that precious little white girl a year ago did not bring St. George Fentanyl Floyd back from the grave.
That poor dear little girl :-(((
Angry racist black woman wants to use white children as a prop for her pathetic social media virtue-signaling, condoned and paid for by government
Sick
Sick
Sick
Wow! A Black woman murdering a White or mixed race infant! Who saw this coming?
What the hell are they doing allowing monsters like this to adopt babies?
This makes me sick.
They’ll only get a few years but they should get life.
The New York Post is reporting that Robinson received a life sentence.
Food Network contestant will spend life in prison for killing foster kid
I see stuff like this and even killing them slowly would not be satisfying to me. The poor child. She deserved a real loving home. Who TF thought that such a thing would be possible with these creatures?4
She probably tried to plead with the judge for mercy as she had just lost a dear child!
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