Nationwide — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after admitting to fatally beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 2021. Timothy Robinson, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the case of young Emmanuel Ware.
According to 11 Alive, the incident occurred on December 10, 2021, when St. Louis police responded to a call around 2:20 p.m. about a child allegedly struck by a vehicle on the 2600 block of Rutger Street. Upon arrival, officers found Emmanuel inside a home, unconscious and not breathing, with visible bruises across his body. He was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Emmanuel’s mother, Shanice Moore, told investigators she had left her son in Robinson’s care at a friend’s home while she attended a job interview. When she returned a few hours later, she found her son unconscious with head injuries. Robinson claimed the boy had been hit by a car, a story Moore initially repeated to authorities.
“He told me he got hit. And I didn’t know what else to tell police, so I just repeated what he said,” Moore later explained. Robinson fled the home before emergency responders arrived.
He was arrested three days later on an unrelated robbery charge. During questioning, Robinson claimed that a black Monte Carlo struck Emmanuel near Park and Ohio Avenue while the two were walking to a gas station. However, investigators found no evidence of a crash, and surveillance footage failed to show Robinson and Emmanuel at any nearby store. An autopsy confirmed the child died from internal injuries inconsistent with being struck by a vehicle.
In addition to the murder charge, Robinson also pleaded guilty to a robbery committed on December 13, where he assaulted a woman exiting a Metro Bus in the Lindenwood Park neighborhood and stole her purse.
As part of a plea deal, Robinson received 18 years for the child’s death and 15 years for the robbery, with both sentences to run concurrently. Circuit Judge Madeline O. Connolly accepted the plea agreement, avoiding a trial that had been scheduled for next month.
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