Man accused of child sex crimes agrees to plea deal

Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 | 7:19 p.m.

A man accused of sex crimes involving two children under the age of 14 agreed to a plea deal Monday that would bring him between eight and 20 years in prison.

Robin Newberg, 35, had faced two counts of sexually assaulting a victim under 14 and eight charges of lewdness with a minor under 14. Charges of using a minor in production of pornography were previously dropped.

Before District Court Judge James Bixler, Newberg pleaded guilty to one count of attempted sexual assault of a minor under 14 and two counts of attempted lewdness with a child under 14. The assault charge carries an eight- to 20-year sentence and the lewdness charges carry concurrent two- to five-year sentences. The agreement also called for lifetime registration as a sex offender.

“I think it’s a fair resolution to the case,” Chief Deputy District Attorney James Sweetin said. “Based on everything, I think it was a reasonable negotiation.”

A chief concern, he said, was having the young witnesses testify during a trial. He said he had consulted the victim’s family about the deal.

Two siblings had testified during the case’s preliminary hearing that Newberg repeatedly touched them inappropriately and snapped photos of them with a cell phone between February and July, 2007. Newberg was living with them at the time as the boyfriend of their mother.

Bixler asked Newberg if he was guilty of each charge after he read a description of each count into the record. Newberg answered yes.

Newberg is scheduled to be sentenced at noon Dec. 15.

Dave Clark can be reached at 990-2677 or dave.clark@hbcpub.com.

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By vegas44

Jan. 9, 2009

11:36 p.m.

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He should burn in hell a special hell just for child molesters, and never get out of jail, I pray that the other prisoners find out what he did and exact a true punishment that he deserves.
I know in my heart that he did commit these terrible crimes,even thought he tried to convince me that he was not guilty.
He told me that their mother was a drug addict and that he was taking care of the kids because she couldn't (told to me from the first two weeks he was in jail, until I cut myself off from him, the police would not talk to me about the case so I was only getting the con story from Robin who was calling himself Xavier. I spoke with him the first week not knowing what was real, the second week, trying to still be his friend so I could get more intel on him, When I finally did get a hold of the sister I got the real story)
They had 16 charges against him and I still can't understand how so many of the charges were dropped.He ruined these innocent children lives and so many more lives in his long history of identity thief,burglary , and who knows how many other children he molested.
They have proven that the molester has done this untold times before they are caught.
His sister had told me that she had caught him several times viewing child porn on her computer, her solution was to remove the computer from his room. I wish that she had a moral compass and told me that I was letting a child molester into my life, only after he was in jail did she tell me about the computer and all of the other people that he ripped off.
He was and is a professional con artist, before his sentencing he tried to sue me for $5000.00 in small claims court, even though when they booked him he had 5 to 6 credit cards in my name. I now till this day am trying to clean up my credit, he had charged up over $10,000.00 in fraudulent accounts in my name.
I should of known better, I kept saying he was to good to be true, did search the web for his name and found nothing, I guess I wasn't looking in the right places, like the prison he was in for 5yrs before he molested those children. Months after he committed these terrible crimes against this poor kids,he conned me too, saying how much he loved me and wanted to take care of me for the rest of my life, I thank God the F.B.I finally caught him or who knows who much longer this would have gone on.
I have nieces and nephews of my own, my eyes tear up and my heart aches,that I wasn't more diligent on my gum shoe skills.
Please as a warning to all, you don't really know the people you let into your life, hire a private detective to check them out. Don't rely on their family, they will not tell you the truth. I thought I was a very safe and intelligent person living here in Vegas for over 25yrs now, I checked him out and talked with him for a few months, met his family, before I let him into my life and I was taken in.
Thank you for listening