SOUTH CAROLINA – A jailed former TV chef who brutally beat her beautiful thee-year-old foster daughter to death has made a fresh demand for freedom.
Ariel Robinson, 33, a former Food Network contestant and winner of Worst Cooks in America, was convicted of homicide by child abuse in 2022 after she beat little Victoria ‘Tori’ Smith to death.
Victoria suffered fatal internal injuries from repeated blows.
Now Robinson, who is serving a life sentence, is demanding a new trial and begging South Carolina’s Supreme Court to overturn her conviction, as reported by local news outlet FOX Carolina.
She is arguing that prosecutors should never have been allowed to show the jury graphic photos of the toddler’s graphic injuries.
Her legal team insists the images were ‘inflammatory’ and unfairly biased the jury, who found her guilty after just over an hour of deliberations.
A state appeals court already denied her request for a new trial earlier this year.