WICHITA, Kan. — A former
Wichita police officer and USD 259 security official has been formally charged
with child sex crimes.
On Wednesday, 51-year-old Alex
Robinson was arrested and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail. Robinson made
his first court appearance Thursday afternoon and was charged with several
crimes involving three minors:
Robinson was charged with two
counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and three counts of aggravated indecent
liberties in connection to crimes alleged to have occurred between 2000 and
2002. The victim in that case was 12 to 13 years old at the time.
He was also charged with
aggravated indecent liberties with an 11-year-old that allegedly happened in
June 2012.
Robinson is also facing two
counts of indecent liberties with a 14-year-old, alleged to have occurred
between August 2011 and September 2012.
He remains jailed on a $100,000
bond and is scheduled to be back in court for a preliminary hearing on March
27.
Background:
Robinson was first arrested on
similar charges in January of 2013 after a 24-year-old man came forward,
alleging sex crimes that happened more than a decade prior when he was a
juvenile. Crimes of that nature typically carry a 5-year statute of
limitations, but Captain Brent Allred said last year that certain qualifiers
could be met allowing charges to be filed in this case, several years after the
statute expired.
He was free on bond until being
arrested again this week.
Robinson was a 22-year veteran
of the Wichita Police Department, retiring as a sergeant in 2006. He then took
a job a security supervisor with Wichita Public Schools, but has not been back
to work since his first arrest last year. A school district spokesperson said
his employment is currently "under review."
Robinson was last interviewed
by KAKE News in 2007 after receiving an award from then-President George W.
Bush for volunteering more than 17,000 hours at the Boys and Girls Club.