Posted on 01/02/2009 7:45:51 PM PST by fella
Man charged despite girlfriend telling police she framed him BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times
Posted on Friday, January 2, 2009
A University of Arkansas employee faces charges for recording a teenage girl in the shower even though his girlfriend told police she did it to get him in trouble.
Kevin Dale Robinson, 35, was charged Tuesday with possessing or viewing matter depicting explicit conduct involving a child and video voyeurism.
Robinson is accused on Oct. 6 of possessing nude images of a 16-year-old girl and using a digital camera to secretly record her while she was taking a shower.
Robinson who works as a systems programmer for the UA's information technology services department, told Fayetteville police when he was arrested Nov. 12 that he did not take the video recording of the teenage girl.
He said his longtime girlfriend, Lela Churchwell, took the video herself in an effort to get him in trouble, according to the arrest report. He also produced for police an e-mail from Churchwell sent Oct. 21 in which she admitted to being a pathological liar and setting him up.
Robinson told police the whole incident was concocted by Churchwell because she was jealous of his close relationship with the victim and two other juveniles. Police did not consider his story to be credible or believable and arrested him on probable cause.
On Nov. 13, Churchwell told police that she had recorded the nude shower footage but told the victim and police that Robinson did it to get him in trouble. She said she tried to convince Robinson that he did it when he was drunk.
She also told police she had become pregnant by another man and she planned to blackmail Robinson so he would move out of the house and she could stay there while he paid the mortgage.
Churchwell was arrested on probable cause on charges of video voyeurism, theft of property and filing a false police report.
She was charged on Dec. 12 with second-degree battery. Other possible charges she was arrested on are pending.
In the battery case, Churchwell is accused of striking Robinson in the head with a shovel on Oct. 12 - when police responded to the initial call from the victim about being recorded in the shower.
The victim told police that Churchwell struck Robinson with the shovel after catching him using a digital camera to take shower pictures.
Churchwell told police she was very intoxicated when she smacked Robinson in the head two or three times with the shovel. After the last blow, Robinson "fell over onto the ground like a rag doll," she said, according to the police report.
"Developments in the case" convinced prosecutors to file charges against Robinson even though his girlfriend claims she made up the story, said Mark Booher, 4th Judicial District deputy prosecutor.
"It's a bizarre case," Booher said.
Police reports indicate that Robinson was accused of making numerous comments of a sexual nature to the 16-year-old girl, but he is not accused of any sexual contact with her.
University officials could not be reached over the holiday break to confirm Robinson's continued employment, but his name remained on the UA's online employee directory Wednesday.
The alleged incident did not happen on campus and did not involve any students, according to police reports.
Wow.
That is one psycho chick.
This whole story is just bizarre!
Jury trial. Put her on the stand, and watch the jurors lynch the prosecutor for wasting their time with such a BS case.
Wow. And I thought I knew the most psycho chick in the world...
These two people should get out of the gene pool immediately.
You know my ex-wife?
Oh well. Now that the truth is out - all charges will be dropped against the man and he wont stand trial.
Oh yeah. The DA will bring a case AGAINST the girlfriend.
And oh look! Pigs are flying!
I can testify to the fact that there are a lot of psycho chicks in the world. Probably a fair number of psycho guys too.
I always thought of myself as one of the crazies that should probably be avoided at all costs, but damn...If she doesn’t get jailtime, she should at least get a warning label tattooed on her butt!
I mean, talk about conniving; and I’m pretty sure her willingness to exploit a sixteen year old girl should qualify her as a sexual predator.
chances of a psycho 16 year old.. who is having sex with thirty year old are pretty high... guess like 90%
Let me guess - psychology professor.
It doesn’t matter what the truth is. The template (as created by liberals/feminists) is that men are always the perverted predators and women the innocent victims. The facts will be interpreted in a manner to fit the template. Because the template is the truth.
Sounds like the only thing missing is a “dancer” and a prosecutor from the Nifong ilk.
Another flower of American womanhood.
And now the facts will be adjusted until she becomes the victim. Same old story.
Some poor staff lawyer there in the DA's office is going to have fun with this one.
Man charged despite girlfriend telling police she framed him
***Then he’s lucky. Not only does this unpleasantness go away eventually, but he gets paid for it.
Actually, its the age of the girl that matters. I suspect that you simply don't agree with the legal age.
If the "she" was 10 and he was still 35, would you still think that he was the victim here?
If I remember correctly the age of consent in Arkansas is 16. I don’t like it but it’s their law and Bubba loved it.
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