GUILTY TX - Robbie Middleton set ablaze at 8, dead of related cancer, Splendora, 2011

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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...rded-150-billion-seek-justice-for-2419109.php

Colleen and Robert Middleton don't expect to collect a dime of the $150 billion a civil jury awarded them this week in the death of their son.

They just want the person they say is responsible for his death to be brought to trial. Frustrated at prosecutors' decision to drop the 1998 assault case, the family sought justice - and public awareness - in the civil courts.


#1 Respectfully, why would a court of law even ALLOW this type of judgment knowing there is NO WAY he can pays this (heck, our own gov't couldn't afford this)
#2 Where are the criminal charges?

Sad situation. Do we have a thread dedicated to this crime?

No thread but it appears the prosecution did not have sufficient evidence to charge him with the crime in 1998 (or the crime of molestation)

Where is this monster?
 
krimekat said:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...rded-150-billion-seek-justice-for-2419109.php

Colleen and Robert Middleton don't expect to collect a dime of the $150 billion a civil jury awarded them this week in the death of their son.

They just want the person they say is responsible for his death to be brought to trial. Frustrated at prosecutors' decision to drop the 1998 assault case, the family sought justice - and public awareness - in the civil courts.


#1 Respectfully, why would a court of law even ALLOW this type of judgment knowing there is NO WAY he can pays this (heck, our own gov't couldn't afford this)
#2 Where are the criminal charges?

Sad situation. Do we have a thread dedicated to this crime?

No thread but it appears the prosecution did not have sufficient evidence to charge him with the crime in 1998 (or the crime of molestation)

Where is this monster?
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Yeah, I get the punitive nature of the judgment but WOW!
 
The prosecutor in the case of Robbie Middleton, the 8-year-old boy who was doused with gasoline and set on fire in 1998, explains why he let the case go.

dated May 16, 2011

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Pros...case-explains-why-he-let-it-go-121921229.html

In an unrelated case, Collins was later convicted in 2001 for the aggravated sexual assault of an 8-year-old boy. He is currently in prison for failure to register as a sex offender.

Middleton’s mother is pushing now for a murder investigation.

“I want Robert to be treated fairly. I want them to take it all present it to a grand jury and let them decide,” Colleen Middleton said.

I hope this monster is still incarcerated . . .
 
There appears to be a contradiction with what this prosecutor is saying now with what newspapers apparently reported he was saying after the attack. He doesn't recall that? Where would newspaper get it from?
"Newspaper articles from shortly after the attack quoted Pattillo as saying Middleton had implicated Collins to authorities. Pattillo said he doesn't recall that and stands by his statements above."
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Pros...case-explains-why-he-let-it-go-121921229.html
 
11 News also asked about a confession 13-year-old Collins had reportedly made while in custody.

"He did," Pattillo acknowledged, but added "there were problems with it."

Pattillo’s philosophy was that it was “better to let him go and get him in the future, than try him and lose it.”

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Prosecutor-in-Robbie-Middleton-case-explains-why-he-let-it-go-121921229.html

I'm sorry but this "prosecutor" is an idiot! Let's tell his other victims that the state wanted to to catch him the next time!
 
What an awful dumb thing for Pattilo to say, or even think. Get him in the furture after he lights another child on fire?

The horrible pain of this boys family ,seeing the evil done to their baby and he forces the thought on them that this guy will commit this crime again?

The prosecutor is out of touch just a bit.
 
Rest in Peace, Robbie, your horrific story breaks my heart. :(



Boy tied to tree and burned alive on his eighth birthday names his 'attacker' 13 years later in chilling death-bed video

Robbie Middleton was doused in gasoline and set on fire on his eighth birthday in 1998
He died 13 years later from cancer caused by the burns covering his body
In a video recorded on his deathbed he accused his alleged attacker Don Collins of raping him two weeks before he was set on fire
Don Collins, now 27, is to be charged with felony murder
By SARA MALM
PUBLISHED: 16:19 GMT, 16 October 2012 | UPDATED: 19:57 GMT, 16 October 2012


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-died-cancer-caused-wounds.html#ixzz29WKRzbES
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I just came here to see if there was a thread.

FTR, Donnie Collins is a RSO after the rape of another child in the late nineties. I don't think there was ever any doubt of his guilt.
 
Oblio said:
I just came here to see if there was a thread.

FTR, Donnie Collins is a RSO after the rape of another child in the late nineties. I don't think there was ever any doubt of his guilt.
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I gather that, from the little that I have read.

WTH was the monster not locked up? Outrageous.
 
Authorities move toward charging man in burn victim’s attack, death
http://www.khou.com/news/crime/Auth...n-in-burn-victims-attack-death-224156681.html

HOUSTON—Authorities have made the first step toward charging a Montgomery County man with a horrific murder, 15 years after a little boy was set on fire.

Back in 1998 Don Collins was accused of dousing his neighbor Robbie Middleton with gasoline, setting him on fire, and leaving him for dead.

Middleton survived, but died two years ago of cancer caused by skin grafts. Before he died, Middleton made a deathbed accusation that Collins had sexually assaulted him two weeks before the attack.

Sick case all around. :stormingmad:
 
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nei...rning-boy-trial-out-of-Montgomery-5805260.php

A state district judge ruled Monday that the trial of a man charged with dousing a boy with gasoline and setting him ablaze 16 years ago, causing injuries that eventually killed him, should be moved out of Montgomery County because of widespread publicity that could sway potential jurors.

State District Judge Kathleen Hamilton has agreed to a defense request to move the long-awaited trial of Donald Collins, 29, to another location. Collins is being held in the Montgomery County jail on a $1 million bond.

Hamilton asked both the defense and prosecuting attorneys to meet with her Thursday to decide upon an alternate site for the trial, which is set to begin Jan. 5.
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Jury selection begins tomorrow:

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nei...er-trial-to-start-in-Galveston-6054775.php#/0

The Montgomery County man accused of pouring gasoline on an 8-year-old boy and setting him ablaze in 1998 - contributing to his death 13 years later - goes on trial this week for capital murder in Galveston, 85 miles southeast of where the attack took place.

Prosecutors say Don Collins of New Caney, now 29, was 13 when he set out to silence a victim of a sexual attack two weeks earlier. They say he caught Robbie Middleton on a wooded path, soaked him with gasoline and set him on fire, burning him so badly that only the soles of his feet were undamaged.

Middleton survived until age 20, but a medical examiner ruled his 2011 death to be a homicide because he succumbed to a cancer caused only by repeated skin grafts. Collins, a convicted sex offender, maintains he is innocent.
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http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/w...begins-in-burned-boy-murder-trial-6057181.php

Attorneys began paring a pool of nearly 200 potential jurors Monday to find 12 who will decide whether Don Collins is guilty of capital murder for setting a boy ablaze in 1998, causing burns that led to his death four years ago...

Jury selection is expected to take at least two days.

Legal experts have said prosecutors may face an uphill battle trying to link Middleton's death in 2011 to the earlier attack.
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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nei...to-testify-in-burned-boy-trial-6058883.php#/0

On Tuesday, Donald Collins of New Caney, accused of attacking the boy in 1998 to silence him for an alleged sexual assault two weeks earlier, turned his head away from a nearby screen as prosecutors flashed gruesome images of the victim's small body, burned from head to toe...

The images were shown on the first day of testimony in the capital murder trial of Collins, who was 13 at the time of the attack. He is now 29...

The prosecution told jurors in its opening statement that the case would rely heavily on witnesses who came forward many years after the attack.
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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nei...urned-boy-video-shown-at-trial-6065521.php#/0

A small figure covered in scar tissue, his skin unnaturally white, strains with his last ounce of energy to speak on a video shown to jurors Thursday. In the end, Robbie Middleton, who was then near death, managed to name Donald Collins as the one who raped him nearly 17 years ago and then two weeks later used gasoline to set him ablaze on his 8th birthday.

The videotaped statement was taken 17 days before Middleton died, shortly before his 21st birthday in 2011...

While the jury intently watched the video, Collins kept his back turned to the screen and appeared to be reading a newspaper.
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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Defense-rests-in-burned-boy-trial-6070897.php

Defense attorney E. Tay Bond called a single witness, Montgomery County sheriff's Capt. Bruce Zenor, before resting his case...

Bond had his client sworn in Friday and informed formally in front of Montgomery County District Judge Kathleen Hamilton of his right to testify in his defense. Collins declined to testify...

The prosecution rested Friday after four days of testimony by witnesses who included world renowned burn surgeon Dr. David Herndon, Middleton's parents and a string of witnesses who said that Collins admitted to them that he burned Robbie Middleton to silence him.
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