Individuals who consider Roberson is responsible have additionally repeated claims that he sexually abused Nikki.
However only one nurse made that allegation: Andrea Sims, who mentioned at trial that she was an authorized sexual assault examiner earlier than later admitting on cross-examination that she was not, in actual fact, licensed.
Roberson’s attorneys and Brian Wharton, the case’s lead investigator, mentioned that Sims examined Nikki for indicators of sexual abuse with out being requested by legislation enforcement.
Sims testified that she noticed three anal tears that led her to conclude sexual abuse. The prosecutor then requested her to conject, earlier than the jury, about pedophiles and anal intercourse.
Squires, the Dallas pediatrician, refuted Sims’ conclusion, saying she noticed one tear and took it as typical for a toddler.
Then, even after dropping the allegation as grounds for capital punishment, the prosecutor mentioned sexual abuse in his closing assertion to the jury.
Roberson’s attorneys condemned the sexual abuse allegation as unsubstantiated and prejudicial to Roberson’s trial, noting that the state provided no proof past Sims’ testimony. They added that Nikki struggled with diarrhea within the week main as much as her loss of life.
“This is being thrown around, in my opinion, recklessly and dangerously all over the internet right now that Roberson sexually abused and did other things to Nikki,” state Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, mentioned Oct. 21.
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He requested Salzman, who supported Roberson’s appeals, whether or not there has “ever been a scintilla of substantiated evidence to support that claim.”
“Absolutely not,” Salzman mentioned.
In his Oct. 23 launch, Paxton additionally detailed a jailhouse informant’s declare that Roberson had admitted to molesting Nikki — a report that even the prosecution didn’t increase through the trial.
“By including this information, the [attorney general’s office] has repeated a lie with, at best, a complete indifference to the truth,” the lawmakers wrote of their rebuttal. “The ‘jailhouse snitch’ here wove a tale so outrageously contrary to the evidence that prosecutors didn’t use it at trial.”
