Jacob Randall Robison, Wakulla Florida man beats girlfriend’s 1 year old to death from head to toe while she was at work. Man previously arrested for child abuse of another child.
A Florida man with a history of ‘anger management issues’ is facing second degree murder for allegedly beating to death his girlfriend’s 1 year old daughter, ‘from head to toe.’
Jacob Randall Robison, 23 of Crawfordville was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count of second-degree murder in the toddler’s death.
The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said they were called to a Dollar General parking lot on Wednesday, after a one-year-old was unresponsive.
‘Worst case they had ever seen’
Detectives said they found injuries that were consistent with recent physical abuse, WCTV reported.
According to the arrest warrant, the toddler’s mom was at work while Robison was watching the one-year-old girl on Wednesday. The toddler’s mom went into work at 4 p.m..
Robison and the toddler’s mom had a text exchange throughout the evening.
Around 9 p.m., Robison allegedly claimed in a text to the mom that the toddler was fighting sleep and fell off the bed. Robison allegedly said, ‘So if she has another knot on her head yk [you know] why.’
He sent another message that stated, ‘She hit hard so I’m sure there will be.’
The document stated that Robison and the toddler’s mother lived in a shed just behind Robison’s mother and stepfather’s home in Crawfordville.
When the toddler’s mother arrived home just after 10 p.m., she reportedly took a shower, ate dinner and then entered the shed where she was living.
The report said it was then that she saw her daughter in the playpen with purple lips and a blanket covering her body up her chin. When the blanket was moved, the toddler was found with bruises on her face and body, cold to the touch, limp and wasn’t breathing.
The mother called 911 just after 11 p.m. and notified dispatch that her daughter was ‘not breathing and turning blue.’ She said that she was pulling into the parking lot of Dollar General, according to the report.
Responding deputies, firefighters, and EMTs rendered aid to the toddler on scene before being transported to the hospital where the child was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
The warrant included a comment from a hospital staff member noting, ‘this was the worst case they’d ever seen.’
Previous domestic case and charges involving another child
At the hospital, detectives reportedly found visible bruising from head to toe and documents state the child appeared to have been ‘beaten to death.’
A subsequent autopsy found that the victim had recently suffered two separate brain hemorrhages that were “not consistent with a single act.”
Deputies later searched the shed and sent some potential evidence for testing.
When the toddler’s mother left for the hospital, Robison said he was following right behind her but never showed up. Instead his license plate was tracked to Albany, Georgia., around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Robison was arrested on Thursday and charged with second degree murder. He s being held without bond at the Wakulla County Jail.
Robison’s family told deputies that he was arrested for child abuse involving another child in April 2023 and had anger management issues, according to WCTV.
It remained unclear who the alleged victim was in the prior abuse case.
Court records show Jacob Robison being arrested in July 2022 on charges of domestic battery. Robison signed a deferred prosecution deal about a month later and charges were ultimately dropped in December 2022.
The Chief Assistant State Attorney for Wakulla County, Jon Fuchs, said the victim initially reported the incident, but later requested the charges be dropped. Fuchs said prosecutors offered a deferred prosecution deal instead, that required Robison to attend a batterer’s intervention program as one of its conditions.
Robison has filed a request to be represented by a public defender in the murder case.
