A wicked mother who claimed the Bible told her to beat her young son with a cane before murdering him will serve at least 25 years behind bars.
In the weeks before his violent death, three-year-old Dwelaniyah Robinson suffered excruciating burns after being forced to immerse himself in scalding water and was subjected to a series of cruel acts by his mother Christina Robinson.
This included being caned with a cane for “spoiling his food.”
Newcastle Crown Court heard the boy died after emergency services were called to his home on November 5, 2022, by Robinson, who claimed he had stopped breathing while eating a cheese ball.
Paramedics who attended the home in Bracken Court, Ushaw Moor, County Durham, saw that the boy’s legs were heavily bandaged.
Christina Robinson (pictured) claimed the Bible told her to beat her young son with a cane before murdering him and that she will serve at least 25 years behind bars.
Three-year-old Dwelaniyah Robinson suffered excruciating burns after being forced into boiling water and was subjected to a series of cruel acts by his mother.
Police revealed the bamboo cane used by Robinson to beat his son Dwelaniyah
The bandages hid agonizing burns on his legs, buttocks and genitals, covering up to 20 percent of his body; He should have undergone immediate surgery but had not received adequate medical treatment.
Dwelaniyah also had distinctive bruises on his arms and body after being hit with a bamboo cane when he was already severely burned.
The little boy’s death was caused by an impact to the head that caused devastating injuries to his eyes and brain.
The court heard he had suffered a similar injury two days earlier, which had begun to heal.
Robinson, who was married but pregnant by a sperm donor and had been dating a man she met on a dating site at the time her son died, denied murder and four counts of cruelty to a person under 16. .
The 30-year-old man, who showed no emotion at the scene, during interrogation or during the trial, was found guilty by a jury in March.
At today’s sentencing hearing, Robinson continued to deny his guilt, telling the court: ‘I pray for the day when justice is served.
‘I didn’t kill my son in any way, anyone who wants to imagine it. “I will always defend him.”
Robinson, seen here being interviewed by police, spoke about the Bible encouraging the use of the rod as discipline when asked if she hit her son.
Detectives search Robinson’s home in Ushaw Moor, County Durham
Judge Garnham sentenced her to life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 25 years.
The judge said: “What must have gone through the mind of that little boy, being beaten with a cane by his mother, despite the terrible burns, is not worth thinking about.”
Robinson, a former hairdresser and personal trainer, had told the court during the trial that she wanted a large family, with children in “double figures” and that she followed the “black Hebrew Israelite” movement, which she described as more of a “lifestyle.” than a a religion’.
He said that the Sabbath falls on a Sabbath, where the religion does not allow working, cooking, cleaning or enjoying and must focus on “God Himself.”
Robinson said that on the day of Dwelaniyah’s death, which was Saturday, she had been “very happy but very tired” and had been listening to religious teachings on YouTube.
She admitted to using a cane on the boy that day for “playing with his food,” after watching a scripture video about the punishment.
Prosecutor Richard Wright KC told the court Dwelaniyah died in hospital just over an hour after Robinson initially called the emergency services.
The boy had 70 different injuries, including burns, bruises and abrasions.
Mr Wright told the court: ‘Her body revealed over a period of time before her death that she had been the victim of a series of assaults and had suffered a number of non-accidental injuries.
‘In other words, someone had been deliberately hurting this child and had been doing so for a period of time.
“That person, the prosecution says, was his mother, the defendant Christina Robinson.
‘There is clear evidence that Dwelaniyah had been hitting multiple areas of her body with a weapon, causing bruising, a distinctive type of bruising seen when someone has been hit with a cylindrical weapon.
“In this case, the child had been repeatedly hit by his mother with a bamboo cane.”
Wright said Robinson believed “he was allowed to do it because the Bible told him to punish his son.”
The prosecutor said the bandages on Dwelaniyah’s legs covered “extensive” burns, adding: “They would have caused excruciating pain both when they were inflicted and afterwards, when they were not treated or cared for.”
‘These were very serious burns. Surgery would have been required to treat them. They required immediate medical attention and would have left him scarred for life.
“For weeks after suffering these burns, she did not seek help for him and instead watched as every day he struggled in pain with terrible burns that bled through the bandages she had applied.”
The court heard Dwelaniyah’s fatal head injuries could have been caused by shaking or impact with a surface.
