Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement.
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney John K. “Bubba” Bramlett announced today that William Robertson, 43, pled guilty in Madison County Circuit Court to eight counts of possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to serve eighty years without any eligibility for early release or parole. On November 26, 2024, investigators with the Ridgeland Police Department received a tip from the Webster County Sheriff’s Department regarding an individual they had been investigating for possible child exploitation. Webster County had been engaging in an undercover chat operation with Robertson wherein Robertson was attempting to receive explicit photos and engage in sexual contact with a person Robertson believed to be an underage female but was actually a Webster County Internet Crimes Against Children investigator. Based on the extensive conversations between the undercover officer and Robertson, it was believed Robertson had child pornography on his computer or cell phone. Ridgeland Police Department obtained a search warrant for Robertson’s home. They located several cell phones in his home along with bags containing sexually related objects included handcuffs, whips, personal lubricant, and duct tape. The phones were forensically examined. Investigators uncovered an extensive collection of child pornography involving minors ranging in age from toddlers to early teens. Investigators were also able to locate and identify a young woman who disclosed that she was the subject in some of the sexually explicit photographs. She detailed that she and Robertson had engaged in a sexual relationship beginning when she was fourteen for approximately one year. Other photographs were determined to have been downloaded from the internet and did not contain individuals with whom Robetson had contact. During jury selection of the State’s trial against Robertson, he changed his plea to guilty for all eight counts of possession of child pornography. A sentencing hearing was conducted on Monday, November 10th. He was sentenced to forty years for each offense, which is the maximum allowed by law. Counts I and II were to run consecutively for a total of eighty years to serve with the other six counts running concurrently. Robertson will have to serve each and every day of that sentence. District Attorney Bramlett stated, “People who prey on children are among the worst offenders in our society. This man had sexually abused one child and was attempting to victimize another when he was caught. He had also revictimized every child contained in the images on his phone by accessing and downloading evidence of their own abuse for his sick pleasure. This eighty year sentence is essentially a life sentence and will ensure he will never be able to hurt and traumatize children again.”
31 comments:
That guy is 43? Jeeeez
Pleading guilty didn't help him at all.
hes got the look of a former catamite
He looks the part-
He'll only be 123.....
80 years for getting your jollies. Use a Playboy magazine next time.
He is a poster child for your neighborhood perv.
Good thing he didn’t murder somebody else too, else he’d have to serve 41 years.
Too bad for him that he wasn't prosecuted in Hinds County or he would have received a slap on the wrist. Right?
That dude is going to *hate* prison.
This perv creep must’ve had a shitty lawyer. Why would anyone agree to a plea bargain that was the maximum allowed penalty for the crimes?
10:07 in Hinds County he would have to damn near burn the Courthouse down! Then get $10,000 dollar bail, then commit the crimes in Madison County and receive 5 years depending on the Judge. But wait! I forgot the DA has a new lease on work since being indicted. He too will throw your ass away!
Well Billy Bland received 30 years for try to kill his wife (earlier post) and this individual got 80 years maybe they will be roommates in Parchman and hone their skills on each other.
Look at those eyes! Porn involving TODDLERS? Hope he enjoys his stretch in the joint!
I don't understand how that guy only got 30 years and this guy gets 80?
10:25: Probably not the lawyer's fault. In that District, if you don't plead by a certain deadline then your guilty plea is "open". My guess is that the lawyer got him a deal that wasn't great but was better than the max and he turned it down. Then things got real during jury selection and he changed his mind. In an open plea, any sentence is on the table. And for a case like this, getting the max is not surprising. To have any hope of getting out, he should have pled earlier (if there was such a deal available, and maybe there wasn't; though rare, sometimes the prosecution says "no deals on this one").
This guy certainly deserves his time in the joint and good riddance. But golly why are so many Jackson cold blooded murderers turned back on the streets with little time behind bars?
No sex offender listing for this one.
11:32, Thanks for the explanation.
Defense attorney: "How much justice can you afford?"
It’s always the ones you least suspect
Doing a year is a "bullet." Five years is a "nickel." Ten years is a "dime." What the heck is 80 years called?
His sentence should be for however long it takes to flip on the electric chair.
I wonder if that guy will be sitting in prison saying to himself, “all that stuff was worth me being here”. “I would totally do it again”. Such a waste of life.
The defense attorney should not be paid.
@12:11 - in the words of Slim Pickens, “A sh!tload of dimes”.
He still has his Webster county indictment to worry about.
He's fixing to learn about some real kinky sh!t in prison.
"But golly why are so many Jackson cold blooded murderers turned back on the streets with little time behind bars?"
Gee whiz and oh gosh that sounds a lot like Andy Gipson.
Thanks for the clarification. Glad he saved us the expense of a trial.
That's a guy ?
My first thought was a woman in "transition".
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