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Essex, Md. (Map, News) - Baltimore County police have arrested a convicted sex offender on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl during a camping trip in the Essex area.
Keith Daniel Robinson, 22, of no fixed address, was arrested May 30 on a second-degree rape charge.
Police learned of the allegation after a teacher at the victim’s school overheard a conversation about the alleged rape between two classmates of the victim, according to police.
Detectives say a family friend allowed Robinson to take the 12-year-old girl and her siblings on a camping trip in the wooded area near Bengies Drive-In.
The girl told police that Robinson, also a family friend, asked her to have sex but after she twice refused, he took her away from her two siblings and raped her. The victim said she tried to resist but was held to the ground, according to police.
The girl told police Robinson threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
Robinson is charged with second-degree rape, second-degree child abuse and second-degree sex offense. He is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $500,000 bond.
Robinson, who is not currently listed on the state’s Sex Offender Registry, was convicted in 2005 of a third-degree sex offense involving a 13-year-old girl, police said. He was sentenced to three years of supervised probation, according to Baltimore County Circuit Court records.
In the 2005 case, prosecutors dropped other charges including second-degree rape and sexual abuse of a minor after Robinson agreed to plead guilty to the sex offense.
Prosecutors were forced to work for a plea deal because the victim didn’t want to testify.
“In many of these types of cases we have difficulties with witnesses,” Baltimore County Deputy State’s Attorney Leo Ryan said.
Baltimore County Police spokesman William Toohey said Robinson’s photo was taken off the state’s Sex Offender Registry after his arrest because he is incarcerated.
Police are asking other potential victims to contact the department’s Family Crimes Unit at 410-853-3650.
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Let Tommy do the talking...and it gets back to the wrong people...it will just incite more angry people. Believe me the "potluck" dinners at residents' home don't compare to the fast-food conversations on the corners. It is not like the criminal element is sitting in the park...making plans to harm people...these are removed and relocated folks who remember when...and then get riled-up over the rhetoric. Then they return with a negative reaction...I know from first hand experience...when I heard a teacher tell a group of her students with tears in her eyes that "whites" are taking over the city and your school will disown you. Well, lo and behold the phase out plan was revealed for the high-school and the "told you so choir" started singing. Back to the tears of the teachers it was enough to rally some type of anger in the youths..If you think that tears don't work...we all remember when Hillary shed'em and what was the immediate action after...I rest my case. Are you angry ye
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Our system has become a revolving door for criminals who get arrested, a slap on the wrist, and sent home to repeat crimes again and again. These men, regardless of age, should never see the light of day again. They should spend the rest of their lives in prison even though they deserve much worse.
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shearl said:
its really ashame that mens can touch somehting in this world that dosen,t belong to them. now let that been a woman had done this crime to a man she will be faciong a hellof lot more charging then that, more like 1st degree murder. who give them te right to do that to her she could have been the next president of the united states or been that first person to cure aids or cancer .that child will never get back her precious life she had before or for that matter look at it the same. those mens private part should be cut off put in a glass jar and put on a shelves so they would have to look at it an hour everyday on the remeberce of what thay did.
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Mr. Santoni and Hartford County Sheriff, I think you both need to learn how a real Chinese Chef holding a "meat cleaver" is more than normal. I hold a knife and argue with my husband all the time in the kitchen, does that mean I should be charge with first-degree assault? If a white man holding a knife and starts arguing with another employee and the witness who is also white and understood the whole argument in ENGLISH, will the witness call the police? or will the witness just mind his/her own business? Was the other person injured? Not according to your article? I think before you write this article you should question the witness whether the the man holding the knife or as you mention in your article "brandishing a knife" meant killing the other employee or the witness was simply a racist and somewhat backslashing all ASIAN in general because of the Virginia Masacre, also and did not understood what the two asian men were arguing in CHINESE! Is that why the witness called 911?
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Please I need to know updates on Michael j Francis.....That's my nephew...I just want to know more updates thank you!
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