AG Lynch comment on sentencing of Julie Robat
Publicado el 2009-09-16 18:04:20 [0 comentarios]
Michael J. Healey
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Department of Attorney General
150 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903
Patrick C. Lynch, Attorney General
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Fax: (401) 222-2725 September 15, 2009 www.riag.state.ri.us
PRESS STATEMENT
AG Lynch comment on sentencing of Julie Robat
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch issued the following statement concerning today’s sentencing of Julie Robat, 33, formerly of 6 Lori Drive, North Providence, who was convicted on April 17 on one count of second-degree murder in the 2006 killing of her newborn daughter. The trial judge, Providence County Superior Court Associate Justice Robert D. Krause, sentenced Robat to 45 years, with 25 years to serve at the ACI and 20 years suspended with probation.
At trial, Special Assistant Attorney General Molly K. Cote and Assistant Attorney General J. Patrick Youngs proved beyond a reasonable doubt that on the night of October 29, 2006 into the early morning hours of October 30, the defendant gave birth in the upstairs bathroom of her family’s North Providence home to a 6.9-pound baby girl who was born alive. Over her objections but at the insistence of family members who found her bleeding heavily from the vagina, the defendant was transported by North Providence Rescue to the Emergency Room at Fatima Hospital at approximately 2:30 AM on October 30, where it was determined she had recently given birth. Robat adamantly and repeatedly denied that she had been pregnant, at Fatima Hospital and after being transferred to Women and Infants Hospital. The defendant’s persistent and main concern was not the welfare of her daughter but that her family not be informed of her medical status.
As a result of the findings at Women and Infants Hospital, members of the North Providence Police and Fire Departments searched the home at 6 Lori Drive. In a garbage bag stuffed inside a shopping bag under a platform holding a clothes dryer in the basement, they found a full-term but deceased baby girl, who was subsequently named Angelika Ashley Robat Ellis by the baby’s father and the defendant’s family. The North Providence Police arrested and charged Robat with murder on November 2, 2006. Robat was indicted by a Providence County Grand Jury on April 11, 2007.
Attorney General Lynch said, “If given the opportunity, the members of Angelika Ashley Robat Ellis’s family would, next month, be celebrating the joyous occasion of her third birthday. Instead, they have only more pain and suffering to endure, with today’s sentencing. A mother who should have loved, cherished, and nurtured her baby girl instead disguised her pregnancy and disposed of her daughter like garbage. Instead of embracing her daughter, the defendant exhibited a malicious disdain for the life she brought forth and so callously threw away.”
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