DA: Sex-crime case against ex-school supervisor expected to resume soon

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said he expects the child sex-crimes case against former Wichita police officer and school employee Alex Robinson to resume soon now that he has been sentenced for similar offenses in Colorado.

Robinson, a 22-year veteran of the Wichita Police Department, on Tuesday was ordered to serve 16 years in a Colorado prison after he was convicted of two counts of sex assault of a child by a person in a position of trust where the child is 15 to 18 years old, according to an El Paso County, Colo., court clerk.

His Sedgwick County case has been on hold since July, when a judge issued a warrant for Robinson’s arrest after he didn’t show up for his jury trial.

Robinson was in Colorado’s custody at that time — he had been found guilty in the Colorado case — and hasn’t been free since.

Bennett said Thursday that he anticipates Robinson will be extradited to Kansas sometime over the next 90 days. After that happens, “counsel for Mr. Robinson and counsel for the state will meet with the court … and it’ll just be set back on the jury trial docket,” Bennett said.

“Sometime in the summer or fall of 2016 would be my expectation.”

Defense attorney Steve Mank said: “When he gets back, we’ll start getting it figured out.”

Robinson faces eight criminal charges in Sedgwick County, including aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated indecent liberties with a child and indecent liberties with a child. The allegations stretch over 12 years, beginning in 2000, and involve boys ages 11 to 14.

At the time of his January 2013 arrest, Robinson was the school safety services supervisor for Wichita public schools. He was on paid administrative leave for 15 months before his termination.

Robinson came under police scrutiny in early 2013 after a 24-year-old man came forward, accusing Robinson of molesting and sodomizing him after meeting him through the Boys & Girls Club when he was 11 or 12. Other victims, including the boy in the Colorado case, surfaced as news of the allegations spread.

Robinson was a Wichita police officer at the time of some of the alleged assaults. He also served on the board of directors for the youth-mentoring program Real Men, Real Heroes, but was asked to resign in the wake of the investigation.

Robinson has pleaded not guilty to the local charges. He was formally charged in the Sedgwick County case in March 2014.

This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 12:46 PM with the headline "DA: Sex-crime case against ex-school supervisor expected to resume soon."