Mom gets 40 years in sex case involving her children
Mom gets 40 years in sex case involving her children
BY SHARON COOLIDGE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A mother who sexually molested at least one of her five young children and allowed four of them to have sex with each other will spend 40 years in prison, thanks to an unusual use of Ohio's child-endangering law and a tough judge.
To file the charge as a felony there must be evidence of harm. For Robin Kraft's children, prosecutors said that harm was psychological.
"These children were not beaten, there were no cuts or stabs, but the way these kids act now after living with this woman requires prolonged treatment to be normal, if ever," said Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier. "This was a new theory, but it was successful."
Kraft, 26, of Winton Hills, pleaded guilty and was convicted in June on two charges of rape and four charges of child endangering.
At sentencing Friday, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters urged Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge David Davis to impose the 40-year prison term - the maximum allowed - saying Kraft must not be released while she is still in her childbearing years.
Her husband, Paul Kraft, was sentenced in March to five life prison terms on five charges of rape, plus another 96 years for 12 charges of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor. Kraft, 32, will never be eligible for parole.
In the spring of 2005, an undercover U.S. Secret Service agent in Miami met Paul Kraft in a Yahoo chat room called "baby and pre-teen sex."
In an online exchange with the agent, Paul Kraft offered to rape a 3-year-old live on the Internet if another person would do the same so Kraft could watch. That 3-year-old was his daughter.
The undercover agent contacted Hamilton County sheriff's deputies, who went to Kraft's home and arrested him.
BY SHARON COOLIDGE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A mother who sexually molested at least one of her five young children and allowed four of them to have sex with each other will spend 40 years in prison, thanks to an unusual use of Ohio's child-endangering law and a tough judge.
To file the charge as a felony there must be evidence of harm. For Robin Kraft's children, prosecutors said that harm was psychological.
"These children were not beaten, there were no cuts or stabs, but the way these kids act now after living with this woman requires prolonged treatment to be normal, if ever," said Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier. "This was a new theory, but it was successful."
Kraft, 26, of Winton Hills, pleaded guilty and was convicted in June on two charges of rape and four charges of child endangering.
At sentencing Friday, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters urged Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge David Davis to impose the 40-year prison term - the maximum allowed - saying Kraft must not be released while she is still in her childbearing years.
Her husband, Paul Kraft, was sentenced in March to five life prison terms on five charges of rape, plus another 96 years for 12 charges of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor. Kraft, 32, will never be eligible for parole.
In the spring of 2005, an undercover U.S. Secret Service agent in Miami met Paul Kraft in a Yahoo chat room called "baby and pre-teen sex."
In an online exchange with the agent, Paul Kraft offered to rape a 3-year-old live on the Internet if another person would do the same so Kraft could watch. That 3-year-old was his daughter.
The undercover agent contacted Hamilton County sheriff's deputies, who went to Kraft's home and arrested him.
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