A Mississippi man who killed his wife after violently assaulting her in front of their children will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Circuit Court Judge Randi P. Mueller sentenced Robert John Oshinski, 39, to life in prison for the beating death of Ashley Barbara after Oshinki pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
“This is certainly one of the worst set of facts I have heard in my time on the bench. You will have a long time to sit in prison and think about what you have done and the damage you have done to your children, Mr. Oshinski, and the only good thing I can say is that you have accepted responsibility for your actions and spared your children from having to come into court and testify against you,” said Mueller during the sentencing hearing, according to WLOX.
On Jan. 9, 2022, Gulfport Police officers responded to Memorial Hospital after receiving a call about a woman who succumbed to her wounds hours after she was dropped off at the emergency unit by an unknown individual. Upon their arrival, the hospital personnel informed them Barbara had sustained injuries that showed she had been severely beaten. As a result, investigators discovered Oshinski had dropped her off at the hospital.
According to prosecutors, the defendant had violently beaten the victim with a conduit pipe and a wrench in front of his children in the family camper home in Long Beach. Later, an autopsy report revealed Barbara also had post-injuries of fractured a fractured jaw, spine, ribs, hands, and other lacerated organs.
During the victim impact statement, the couple’s oldest child testified to the trauma she has had to endure as she watched her father brutally beat her mother in front of her and her other two siblings.
“I replay that day over and over in my mind. I cannot unsee my father beating my mother to death right in front of me and my siblings,” said the 13-year-old, reported Yahoo News.
Oshinski had been released on a $10,000 bond from Hancock County jail a day before the fatal incident.
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